From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 21:52:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B73E37BB1A for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28896; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:52:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <395AD682.C49C2845@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:54:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Nate Williams , arch@FreeBSD.org, romeo@montague.vs.capulet.bsdconspiracy.net Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? References: <39593307.B752A758@softweyr.com> <3958502D.DF9729BD@gorean.org> <200006242153.OAA01110@h4.private> <200006270615.AAA31842@harmony.village.org> <200006270725.BAA32822@harmony.village.org> <200006271418.IAA04077@nomad.yogotech.com> <200006272329.RAA50325@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <39593307.B752A758@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > : If we continue to migrate important parts of FreeBSD to licenses more > : restrictive than the BSD license, we may find ourselves losing embedded > : design wins to other BSD systems. If that's what the FreeBSD user base > : wants, so be it, but I suspect it is at odds with the wants and needs > : of Whistle, Nokia, Apple (maybe), and BSDi (in particular). > > While I am arguing about th Artistic license, I think you are right. That is certainly included in the set of "licenses more restrictive than the BSD license." So is practically everything else but the Beer Ware License, and even THAT makes the bean-counters queasy. "How many beers do we owe him? How do we pay these beers? When are the beers due?" Damned beancounters. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message