Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:00:24 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <39593208.7D132924@softweyr.com> References: <200006270744.BAA32993@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
>
> --------
> I hate to follow up to myself.
>
> I did want to add that if my logic on why the license doesn't matter
> is faulty somehow, I would like to know. The one problem that I see
> people bringing up is the desire for anything that replaces lpr/lpd to
> be modifiable by parties not wishing to disclose those modifications
> in source form, but distribute them in object form only.
>
> Evidentally, there are people that have done this now and would most
> likely wish to do something similar with lprng if we were to import
> it.
>
> Do I have the gist of the objection understood?
No. See my moments-previous rant about why you may not be able to
distribute the "FreeBSD standard LPRng" in a binary product.
--
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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