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From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: what's the latest official version of sendmail?
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Date: 17 Nov 88 23:29:42 GMT
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# The latest official release is always the one in ucbarpa's ~ftp area [...]

Note that sendmail is publically available.  Not "public domain", since that
has some legal connotations that CSRG and the UC Regents don't want to deal
with.  But it comes mostly to the same thing: you can use sendmail, give away
or sell source or binaries, supported or unsupported.  These are not the exact
terms of the license; see the headers in the comments for the exact details.

But anyone who wants sendmail and can physically get a copy of it can have it
and use it, without breaking any laws or pissing anybody at CSRG off.

Note that I am not a spokesman of CSRG (or anyone else, for that matter). You
should consider these claims unsubstantiated until you look at the comments
at the top of the sendmail source files, or until you hear from someone who
_is_ a spokesman for CSRG.  But since so many people think that sendmail is
a restricted piece of code, I thought I'd amplify my own understanding of its
status.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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