Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:54:16 -0700 (PDT) From: papowell@astart.com To: darren@nighttide.net, nbm@mithrandr.moria.org Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <200007142154.OAA24521@h4.private>
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> From nbm@sunesi.net Tue Jul 11 07:04:02 2000 > Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:03:32 +0200 > From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> > To: Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net> > Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, > papowell@astart.com > Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues > > On Tue 2000-07-11 (09:45), Darren Henderson wrote: > > I can understand that and even sympathize with the idea. However, adding > > software to the standard distribution that doesn't share the same license > > of most of that distribution is a bad thing. What a pain it would be if > > there were dozens of slight BSD license variations. > > There are dozens of slight BSD license variations already. Not to > mention Beerware, Artistic, GPL, Less License, not to mention > dual-licenses, and other weirdness. > > I've mailed Patrick privately to suggest the variation be slightly > adjusted such that, like the Artistic license, only if the software > _claims_ to be LPRng, shall it require the change. This is EXACTLY what I wanted to do. > > If you're on an embedded platform or one-box solution, noone is going to > say 'lpc -V', and if you say 'LPRng inside!', you need simply qualify it > by saying "With local modifications for this platform". If you're on a > commercial off-shoot of FreeBSD, you can either use it verbatim, or make > local changes, and qualify it simply be 'With local modifications for > FooBSD' in lpc -V. If you're using the code for something that isn't > LPRng, you needn't do anything, and can subsequently use the code under > a standard two-clause BSD license. > > I assume that's sufficient for everyone? Are you amenable to this, > Patrick? Yes. But you might find the wording for the license issues a bit mind boggling. I might add that asking the legal vultures (low class eagles) has cost me $200 and two lunches so far. > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > Sunesi Clinical Systems > nbm@mithrandr.moria.org > Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, papowell@astart.com 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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