From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 2:48:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E83737BB02; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:48:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA66764; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:48:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:48:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Warner Losh Cc: Doug Barton , papowell@astart.com, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <200006270725.BAA32822@harmony.village.org> 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, 27 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > Second, the ARTISTIC license does not preclude FreeBSD from including > LPRng. This statement is still true. We can comply with all the > terms of the license. *We* can also comply with all the terms of the GPL. :-) If you're willing to say "any third party commercial vendor who can't comply with the terms of the LPRng license is free to replace it" then we might as well just not worry about licensing issues at all and include GPL code whenever it exists to fill a need, regardless of alternatives. I don't think this is a PoV shared by the wider FreeBSD community. > Third, we have a crying need for a better print system. lpr/lpd are > hard to maintain and difficult to audit. Is LPRng easier to maintain and audit? Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message