Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:26:15 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200006270226.TAA01222@rhapture.apple.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006262159420.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>; fromchuckr@picnic.mat.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:30PM -0400
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> From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> > Date: 2000-06-26 19:13:04 -0700 > To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> > Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? > Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Wes Peters > <wes@softweyr.com>,Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, > arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com > In-reply-to: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006262159420.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>; > fromchuckr@picnic.mat.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:30PM -0400 > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 > X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i > Delivered-to: freebsd-arch@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... I don't read the artistic license this way. Seems like it requires only that you keep copyrights attached, and if you make changes, you either provide the original along with the changed version, or make the effort to get the changes back to the Copyright Holder for incorporation. In addition, point 5 seems to indicate that it's OK to include it "in aggregate", including use as part of a commercial software release, without violating the agreement, as long as you don't claim that lprng is "FreeBSD code" (keep the attributions correct, or somesuch). Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | Men are from Earth. Apple Computer, Inc. | Women are from Earth. 2 Infinite Loop | Deal with it. Cupertino, CA 95014 | *-------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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