On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Jukka Salmi wrote:

> why are Postfix and Sendmail sources kept in src/gnu/dist? IMHO they
> are not released under a GNU licence...

They have similar licenses.

By putting them in the src/gnu directory, developers that reuse that code
are warned.

mrouted used to have a license that wasn't GPL'd, but it was also in the
src/gnu/dist directory so developers would clearly know. ("LICENSEE hereby
grants STANFORD a royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, distribute
and sublicense any such derivative works. ... shall provide STANFORD with
one copy of the source code of the derivative version at no charge ...").
It was changed to a BSD license and now is moved to src/usr.sbin.

Also see how mtrace and mrinfo were moved from src/gnu/dist because
licenses are fine.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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