[conspire] (forw) DMARC mitigation, ezmlm, and golugtech at lists.troubleshooters.com

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sat Sep 24 23:14:17 PDT 2022


Correcting edit error.

> I ask because I don't know.  I worry a bit, because, over the decades
> before 2007, when Dan used his semi-covertly-proprietary licensing
> to enforce some modernity-hostile improvements (such as FHS
> compliance),
     ^^^^^^^ discourage

Dan's pre-2007 licensing made it gratuitously disallowed to ship _binary_
packages of djbware programs that differed from Dan's preference, e.g.,
it would have violated his pre-2008 Qmail licence terms to distribute a
binary RPM or deb that installed components in FHS-compliant locations
instead of where Dan wanted them to live.  Some distros, notably Debian,
employed ingenious workarounds like a "qmail-src" package that _locally_
altered the qmail 1.03 source tree to be FHS-compliant and then
autobuilt and installed the matching binaries.

Most distros, and indeed most potential collaborators, simply applied
their efforts to other codebases.



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