From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 11 15:23:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685F837B662; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29578; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:22:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:22:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "David O'Brien" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues In-Reply-To: <20000711095145.G26861@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 08:07:26AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I don't have a copy in my email archives; someone forward me one. > > Uh, you have an account on hub.freebsd.org. :-) > See hub:/home/mail/archive/ Sorry, last time I looked for that, Jonathan was still moving things about, and I was frustrated in that attempt. OK, I *used* to do that, and I'll start doing it again. > > > He did distinctly say that, for the -V option, in addition to his > > credits, the software must be marked with any modifications (type and > > who modified it, I think) that were done. He didn't want to be blamed > > if it wasn't 100% exactly how he gave it to us. > > Rereading papowell's email, I can see where this came from. I understood > his desires to be simply that we note that the program contains local > changes. Well, the way he wrote it, I *think* I gave the right interpretation. I thought it was kinda goofy when conpared to any other software in the world (commercial, free, or just plain odd). OK, he's reading this, let's let him make the call. A one shot message that the software has been modified for FreeBSD would be just fine in my book; needing an entry for every change is pretty far out. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message