From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 27 16:16:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BAB37C06F for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA76644; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:16:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA50246; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:16:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006272316.RAA50246@harmony.village.org> To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Cc: arch@FreeBSD.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> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:16:22 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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