From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 20: 7:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C9F37BDE9; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18822; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:37:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000626195938.A78956@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:37:02 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Robey , Bill Fumerola Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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