From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 19:12:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190D337B74C for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7F9C81C66; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:12:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:12:08 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Chuck Robey Cc: Will Andrews , Wes Peters , Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000626221208.T5255@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000626214900.G23538@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:30PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message