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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:12:08 -0400
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com
Subject:   Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20000626221208.T5255@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006262159420.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:30PM -0400
References:  <20000626214900.G23538@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006262159420.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:30PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:

> I did, but I'm sorry, Artistic License != BSD License.  The Artistic
> license says you can only use it inside your own organization, freely, you
> can not sell it or use it inside a product (like you can BSD).
> 
> I will admit that the Artistic License is *far* more acceptable than the
> GPL, but I just don't see the need to get this in.  I will immediately
> admit it's better software, but I can't see why we need it in the base
> system, when one of the side effects is losing a perfectly good BSD
> licensed lpd.

This would limit us from having FreeBSD based printer-in-a-box type
solutions...

-- 
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CVM
e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org





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