From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 19:59:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id CC6D037BDCF; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:59:38 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Chuck Robey , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000626195938.A78956@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20000626214900.G23538@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000626221208.T5255@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000626221208.T5255@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:12:08PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:12:08PM -0400, Bill Fumerola 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). We should decide on just what it means. If the Artistic License alone is suffient to keep LPRng out of FreeBSD, then Perl needs to go. Just like LPRng, Perl is under the same "GPL or Artistic License". The Perl Lovers have made Perl so interwinded in FreeBSD that one virtually cannot build world or kernels with out it. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/licenses.html says: Here is a list of some licenses that do not qualify as free software licenses. All of them are incompatible with the GNU GPL. The Artistic license. We cannot say that this is a free software license because it is too vague; some passages are too clever for their own good, and their meaning is not clear. We urge you to avoid using it, except as part of the disjunctive license of Perl. ..snip.. Again, we really should decide what the Artistic License means. While http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/licenses.html is leftest radical propoganda, FSF has thought more about licensing issues than I think we have. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message