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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.




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