From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 7 22:44:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.posi.net (c1096725-a.smateo1.sfba.home.com [24.20.139.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6239D37BB1E for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:44:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by gateway.posi.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA24959; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:47:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey To: Chuck Robey Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On top of that, and this is a purely personal feeling, I think needing a > banner to print out every time your software starts up, well, that's a bit > much too. Sources, yes. Requiring your copyright to be in some very > available file, that's fine too. God, things would look pretty stupid if > all of our utilities decided they needed to print a banner (even if it's a > one or two liner). > > Why shouldn't the writer of "echo" get a banner too? > > Completely off-topic, but I couldn't agree with you more. I think the same thing each and every time I have to watch a linux box boot. Wait, come to think of it, *we* brint a banner on boot... Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. :) Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message