From the qmail mailing list comes the observation that Dan Bernstein recently made a presentation stating that qmail will be placed in the public domain in November 2007.


From: Matthew Dempsky dempsky.org>
Subject: qmail in the public domain?
Newsgroups: gmane.mail.qmail.general
Date: 2007-11-04 04:26:57 GMT (13 hours ago)
There's a thread discussing Dan's ``Some thoughts on security after
ten years of qmail 1.0'' paper, but I haven't seen any mention on the
slides to the corresponding talk[1]. Namely, page 10 says:
2007.11: $500 -> $1000;
qmail placed into public domain.
Does this mean what I think it does? :-)
[1] http://cr.yp.to/talks/2007.11.02/slides.pdf


Amongst other reasons, this is interesting because the qmail redistribution clause has so far said that DJB's permission was required for redistribution of modified versions of qmail, which distro packagers might shy away from to name but one category of potential key user.