From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 9:21:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B875737B533 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA62652; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:21:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Darren Henderson Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <20000711092105.E26861@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from darren@nighttide.net on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:45:48AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:45:48AM -0400, Darren Henderson wrote: > I can understand that and even sympathize with the idea. However, adding > software to the standard distribution that doesn't share the same license > of most of that distribution is a bad thing. What a pain it would be if > there were dozens of slight BSD license variations. There *already* are variations of the BSD license (which? there are 2-3 variations now from Berkeley). This smells of a smoke screen as the license is not as restrictive as the Artistic and GPL licence which we already have in the system. > LPRng is available in the ports and the folks that need its functionality > aren't unduely harmed if its not in the standard distribution. The existing LPR system is (1) becoming non-standard with the rest of BSD and Unix, and (2) is very antiquated and certainly isn't to the standards of how a piece of software should operate today. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message