Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:55:39 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: papowell@astart.com, chuckr@picnic.mat.net, andrews@technologist.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, drosih@rpi.edu, imp@village.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, will@almanac.yi.org Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <3968683B.E7F55CDC@newsguy.com> References: <200007082011.NAA26688@h4.private> <vqcvgyfhj0x.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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I guess I have been too silent in this discussion... I favour bringing in LPRng. For one reason: LPRng is safe, our lpd isn't. Having a "maintainer" is *NOT* going to make our lpd safe any time soon. It wasn't _designed_ with security in mind, and, as mentioned before, the standards don't help any. Our lpd has *one* advantage over LPRng: it's smaller. So we are left between choosing between something smaller and something (much) safer. That's a non-contest for me. Let our lpd live as tiny-ware for those who desperately need a smaller solution to printing. As a bonus, LPRng is much easier to manage. I personally think lpd is too arcane for something that the average user expects to be a non-issue. Though I'm even tempted to remove this paragraph, not to obscure my point... :-) Please, do not cloud this discussion with the "license issues". We already got permission to use a BSD licensed version, whose only difference is to announce itself as "FreeBSD LPRng" instead of just "LPRng". -- 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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