From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 10 6:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA5C37BAD8 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p18-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.147]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id WAA03873; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:45:38 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3969CBB1.2E3C793C@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:12:17 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Henderson Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Henderson wrote: > > They have to retain the copyright info in the source so the information is > there. > > The package is in ports and it doesn't seem anyone is advocating that it > be removed. If it is to be in the primary distribution then it should have > the same, not the same with a proviso, license, if at all possible. If it > can not have the same license then there needs to be some hugely overiding > need to bring in into the core. That doesn't seem to be the case. The package in the ports is licensed under Artistic/GPL. The BSD + keep copyright available on-demand is a much less restrictive license. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck." jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? EE: OK, I made that part up. EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce initially dictated it to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message