| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:48:10 -0500 |
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:41:17PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote: > If NetBSD takes licensing as seriously as OpenBSD (and I don't know the > former community as well as I do the latter), CUPS is license > incompatible. Even if it is technically superior, the GPL holds it > back from broader acceptance. This may also be a part of why some of > the big UNIX vendors aren't more enthused. I didn't have to add anything special to /etc/mk.conf to get CUPS to install out of pkgsrc on my NetBSD machines. (I have things like opera-license, citrix_ica-license, and so forth in ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES there; pkgsrc checks this and refuses to install if you don't have the right license there.) But it's possible it doesn't have the right licensing for inclusion in the base system. > On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:24 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > >So, while there are implementations "available" for all of the > >mainstream Unix distributions, no vendor yet supports them (i.e. > >includes CUPS in their distribution and provides support for it). > The biggest UNIX vendor does. Who would that be? For what definition of "big"? -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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