From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 23:55:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73DB37BE17; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23453; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:51:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39584F45.6C99F22B@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:52:53 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: papowell@astart.com, Doug@gorean.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? References: <200006242153.OAA01110@h4.private> <200006270615.AAA31842@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > Looking at the rest of this thread, I thought I'd run through the > license to see if there were any gotchas. So far all the FUD I've > seen on the list seems to be false. > > : 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code > : or executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the > : following: > : > : a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and > : library files, together with instructions (in the manual > : page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version. > : > : b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable > : source of the Package with your modifications. > > OK. If you're Joe's Print Server Corp you're not gonna be quite so willing to say "OK" to this. Do you really want your customers trying to upgrade your installation of LPRng on the ROMs in your Print Server ][ plus? > : c) accompany any non-standard executables with their > : corresponding Standard Version executables, giving the > : non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly > : documenting the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), > : together with instructions on where to get the Standard > : Version. > : > : d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright > : Holder. Go back over this with your "I'm an embedded company using FreeBSD and I want to provide print services in my box" hat on and see if you still feel this is acceptable. Granted, this is not the only customer base FreeBSD has, but it's a good, strong one and one that has contributed a lot. Let's try not to blow it for them. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message