Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:12:17 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net> Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <3969CBB1.2E3C793C@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007091755580.13726-100000@jasper.nighttide.net>
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Darren Henderson wrote: > > They have to retain the copyright info in the source so the information is > there. > > The package is in ports and it doesn't seem anyone is advocating that it > be removed. If it is to be in the primary distribution then it should have > the same, not the same with a proviso, license, if at all possible. If it > can not have the same license then there needs to be some hugely overiding > need to bring in into the core. That doesn't seem to be the case. The package in the ports is licensed under Artistic/GPL. The BSD + keep copyright available on-demand is a much less restrictive license. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org <jkh> _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck." <EE> jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? <jkh> EE: OK, I made that part up. <jkh> EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce initially dictated it to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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