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License
npadmin is copyright © 1998 Cisco Systems, and copyright © 1999, 2000 Ben Woodard.
This program was written on
Cisco Systems' time. They have however agreed to release
it under the GPL for a number of reasons that all boil down
to support. Cisco knows that all this software that I write
for their print system is a potential support liability if I
were to leave. However, if they allow me to release the
software to the print system, I will be forced to:
- Write better code that can be compiled by pretty much
anyone
- Write good documentation that can be
picked up by someone from outside Cisco or new to the
Cisco environment and make sure that
There is also the benefit that this software will be more
fully tested which will expose potential problems. This has
already saved my butt one time when a person trying out this
program discovered the fact that --languages crashes HP 5M/N
printers.
Also it makes it more likely that they will be
able to hire someone who has experience working with my code.
Finally there is the hope that other people will
contribute some code as well.