Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:58:05 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net> Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <v04210105b58f9457ab0e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3969CBB1.2E3C793C@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007091755580.13726-100000@jasper.nighttide.net> <3969CBB1.2E3C793C@newsguy.com>
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At 10:12 PM +0900 7/10/00, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >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 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. So, the assumption is that FreeBSD will only be allowed to use the BSD license if it removes the current version of lpr and changes lprNG from a port to an integral part of the distributed system? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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