From owner-freebsd-arch  Sun Jul  9 16:50:13 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D765437B631; Sun,  9 Jul 2000 16:50:10 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from DougB@gorean.org)
Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2])
	by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA65859;
	Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:48:24 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from DougB@gorean.org)
Message-ID: <39690F48.A2F25162@gorean.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:48:24 -0700
From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: papowell@astart.com
Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, imp@village.org, andrews@technologist.com,
	arch@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@uunet.co.za,
	will@almanac.yi.org
Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues
References: <200007092102.OAA21518@h4.private>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

papowell@astart.com wrote:
> 
> Let me try to state this as clearly as possible:

	. . .

> What is wrong with retaining the ability to display copyright
> information from the command line options?  What undue burden does
> it place on commercial users of FreeBSD?  And if they modify the
> code,  wouldn't it be good Systems Engineering Practice to have
> some way to verify that?

	I don't think anyone objects to displaying the original copyright
information, and information on who modified what when a command line
option for that purpose is added to an lprng command. I don't think that
anyone would even object to it being included in usage(). From my
perspective, I think that some people misunderstood what you were asking
for, and thought that you wanted to display this information every time a
command was used. Myself, I was a bit confused about exactly what you were
asking for, and I appreciate you clearing it up. 

Doug


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message