From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 29 10:27:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3524B37C435 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA99343; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:27:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200006291727.KAA99343@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <395AD682.C49C2845@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Jun 28, 2000 10:54:26 pm" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, romeo@montague.vs.capulet.bsdconspiracy.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 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?" The beer ware license also makes the liability-counters queasy. If we do give him the beer, do we need a liquour license, are we liable if he gets drunk and does something, etc, etc. > Damned beancounters. Damned lawyers :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message