Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:37:02 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <XFMail.000627123702.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000626195938.A78956@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 27-Jun-00 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:12:08PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > 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. Except that Perl fullfilled a function not present in the system where as the point here is that since lpr works, it is not necessary to replace it with something that has a bad licence. (Comments about the functionality of perl not welcome in this forum I would say :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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