Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:16:22 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200006272316.RAA50246@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:57:59 MDT." <39593177.336E28E9@softweyr.com> References: <39593177.336E28E9@softweyr.com> <39584F45.6C99F22B@softweyr.com> <200006242153.OAA01110@h4.private> <200006270615.AAA31842@harmony.village.org> <200006270654.AAA32561@harmony.village.org>
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In message <39593177.336E28E9@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: : But the rub is - does the activity of porting it to FreeBSD make it a : changed version? I'm well aware that the FreeBSD standard versions are : re-released to the public, but none of that has anything to do with this : section 4. No. It is OK. If you use an unmodified version, all you gotta do is toss a cdrom in your ftp server worst case. Or you could say "just grab it from here, that's the version taht we use." And you'd be in compliance for it. : The problem is not with their own hacked copy of LPRng, but that they : (potentially) can't distribute the FreeBSD version. I'm staring at this : with Perl on a closely related ;^) platform at the moment, and it is : quite a problem. No. I think you are incorrectly reading it. One could easily argue that if one distributes the FereBSD version one is in compliance with the license. Why? Because your distribution service is ftp.freebsd.org. It is completely identical to you putting it up yourself in terms of effect. Your customers would get exactly the same bits as they would directly from you. There's nothing that says that you must be the agent of distribution, only that it must be distributed. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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