From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 9 6:37:26 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 AE2C737B818; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 06:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p41-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.106]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id WAA16380; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:37:07 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3968683B.E7F55CDC@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:55:39 +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: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: papowell@astart.com, chuckr@picnic.mat.net, andrews@technologist.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, drosih@rpi.edu, imp@village.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, will@almanac.yi.org Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues References: <200007082011.NAA26688@h4.private> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess I have been too silent in this discussion... I favour bringing in LPRng. For one reason: LPRng is safe, our lpd isn't. Having a "maintainer" is *NOT* going to make our lpd safe any time soon. It wasn't _designed_ with security in mind, and, as mentioned before, the standards don't help any. Our lpd has *one* advantage over LPRng: it's smaller. So we are left between choosing between something smaller and something (much) safer. That's a non-contest for me. Let our lpd live as tiny-ware for those who desperately need a smaller solution to printing. As a bonus, LPRng is much easier to manage. I personally think lpd is too arcane for something that the average user expects to be a non-issue. Though I'm even tempted to remove this paragraph, not to obscure my point... :-) Please, do not cloud this discussion with the "license issues". We already got permission to use a BSD licensed version, whose only difference is to announce itself as "FreeBSD LPRng" instead of just "LPRng". -- 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