From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 22 17: 1:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (static98.conference.usenix.org [209.179.127.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0D837B784; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01222; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:56:12 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:56:05 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Nik Clayton , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000622235602.A1088@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <17253.961705123@localhost> <200006222046.e5MKkKn07168@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006222046.e5MKkKn07168@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:45:52PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:45:52PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <17253.961705123@localhost>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > > > LPRng is distributed under the GNU and Artistic licenses. > > > > > > If Patrick drops the GNU license in favour of a BSD license it should > > > be O.K. > > > > I'll repeat what Nik said above: "LPRng is distributed under the GNU > > and Artistic licenses." Those are the two you get to choose from and > > that's just the breaks. Note that one of them is not the GPL. > > He said GNU and Artistic licences. > ^^^ > I took that to mean no choice. > > Having read the copyright, it is not GPL. LPRng uses GNU gettext, > which is GPL, for NLS support. In other words it is distributed under > GNU and Artistic licenses, meaning no choice. Would that be > problematic (either omitting NLS support or requiring the gettext for > any builds that require NLS support) for anyone? Otherwise to keep > life simple, it should stay in ports. Just for reference, does this mean that http://www.astart.com/lprng/license.txt is wrong? It says You may use "LPRng" or "IFHP" under either the terms of the GNU GPL License or the Artistic License. These licenses are included below. which contradicts you. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message