Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:02:16 -0700 (PDT) From: papowell@astart.com To: drosih@rpi.edu, imp@village.org, papowell@astart.com Cc: andrews@technologist.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, will@almanac.yi.org Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <200007092102.OAA21518@h4.private>
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Let me try to state this as clearly as possible: If the FreeBSD project wants to distribute LPRng under the BSD license, then I will give them a license to distribute it under the BSD license terms. I would add the following two provisions in addition to standard BSD License terms: A) The copyright and version information must be able to be displayed on request at run time by use of the appropriate command line option. If the LPRng distribution is to be used under the terms of the BSD license, this must be shown in the information displayed at run time. The standard BSD license does not prevent the user from changing the information displayed by the -V option, or even removing it from display. I just want to make sure that it is retained AND is able to be displayed from a command line, and that the license terms under which they are using this is identified if they are using the BSD license. B) If modifications are made to this distribution then this must be indicate by a notice in the source code and/or effected binaries, and the notice displayed at run as part of the copyright and version information. The information must include the name or identity of the person or entity modifying the code and the date of modification or release if applicable. For example: ORIGINAL LPRng Distribution, compiled from source, no changes: ## lpc -V LPRng-3.6.19, Copyright 1988-2000 Patrick Powell, <papowell@astart.com> LPRng distributed with FreeBSD under the BSD license: ## lpc -V LPRng-3.6.19, Copyright 1988-2000 Patrick Powell, <papowell@astart.com> FreeBSD Project, 2000-07-07, Distributed under BSD license, http://www.freebsd.org Modified by somebody AND NOT JUST RECOMPILED: ## lpc -V LPRng-3.6.19, Copyright 1988-2000 Patrick Powell, <papowell@astart.com> FreeBSD Project, 2000-07-07, BSD License, <http://www.freebsd.org>; modified by: FumbleFingerd Corp, version 1.10, 2000-Jan-05, <support@ffc.hotmail.com> What is wrong with retaining the ability to display copyright information from the command line options? What undue burden does it place on commercial users of FreeBSD? And if they modify the code, wouldn't it be good Systems Engineering Practice to have some way to verify that? Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, papowell@astart.com 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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