Re: Retiring lpr and lpd

Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:41:58 +0900

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 04:47:55 +0100
Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 3:42 AM Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote:
> > (..)
> > Would it be possible to move them to ports? Anyone using them would
> > still use but from ports :-) Or some working alternatives (plp seems
> > dead) maybe in ports already? :-)
> 
> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/LPRng seems to be replacement /
> alternative (note capital LPR).

License: ART10 GPLv2
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And depends on GPL'ed things.
This would mean BSD compatibully licensed alternatives for GPL'ed
dependencies and GPL'ed part are needed to be in base.


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