* Mark Linimon (lini...@lonesome.com) wrote: > As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the > developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has > previously done to several other BSDs and several Linux distributions. > This is why ports for his software are no longer available for these > platforms. > > Whether the license has changed or not, the fact that the author feels > the desire to use lawsuits to achieve his goals makes his software too > much of a liability for FreeBSD to redistribute.
Well we can set RESTRICTED if that's a problem, then we will not be distributing anything. I can mirror a distfile under my personal responsibility. Actually I think that the weirdnesses of an author should not be a reason against using useful software or making it available for use by other people, if there's no real legal threat. They may be a cause for stagnation/death of a project, but that's another story. As another argument, Debian and Ubuntu haven't ever removed packages for ion3, just making a user agree with that the software may be obsolete and unsupported. I believe they know what they're doing. But I'll still mail ahze (who removed the port) and adamw (who maintained it last). -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amd...@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amd...@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
