Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:27:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, romeo@montague.vs.capulet.bsdconspiracy.net Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200006291727.KAA99343@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <395AD682.C49C2845@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Jun 28, 2000 10:54:26 pm"
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> Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <39593307.B752A758@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > > : If we continue to migrate important parts of FreeBSD to licenses more > > : restrictive than the BSD license, we may find ourselves losing embedded > > : design wins to other BSD systems. If that's what the FreeBSD user base > > : wants, so be it, but I suspect it is at odds with the wants and needs > > : of Whistle, Nokia, Apple (maybe), and BSDi (in particular). > > > > While I am arguing about th Artistic license, I think you are right. > > That is certainly included in the set of "licenses more restrictive than > the BSD license." So is practically everything else but the Beer Ware > License, and even THAT makes the bean-counters queasy. "How many beers > do we owe him? How do we pay these beers? When are the beers due?" The beer ware license also makes the liability-counters queasy. If we do give him the beer, do we need a liquour license, are we liable if he gets drunk and does something, etc, etc. > Damned beancounters. Damned lawyers :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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