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the problem of qmail is it's author DJB. He considered it 'done' which obviously isn't true. There are quite a few patched versions around but no fork got enoug
by kiney 3y ago
the problem of qmail is it's author DJB. He considered it 'done' which obviously isn't true. There are quite a few patched versions around but no fork got enough traction to become a living and maintained project.
- arp242 3y agoFor a long time you couldn't actually fork it because qmail didn't have a license and djb refused to add one due his unconventional views on licenses and his general stubbornness. So the only thing you could do was distribute a "patch set". And all of this also meant it wasn't packages in many repos. By the time he finally added a copyright notice it was kind of a "too little, too late" kind of affair. This is the story with most "djb-ware": daemontools, djbdns, qmail. I think it's a real shame because all of these had great potential to be picked up by others after djb himself lost interest. I suppose daemontools is the most "successful", but only in the form of the runit re-implementation.
- kiney 3y agoyeah, I nearly forgot about the licensing chaos