On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:52:55 -0600 Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There's non-free software in the ports tree. > > Not in a real sense. The ports tree is a build infrastructure > containing Makefiles, lists of files and where they should go, and (in > a perfect world, continously shrinking) minimal patches. It does not > contain source, per se. There are small code snippets which are > _patches_, but the patches are largely of no great consequences. They > exist to adapt foreign software to our interfaces, and the idea is > that those patches should eventually be fed upsteam, or become > unneccesary. >
Yes, that is true. I believe we had a discussion about this with a certain individual not that long ago. In my view the ports tree merely contain /pointers/ to some non-free software which the user can choose to use or not. "There's non-free software /in/ the ports tree" was not entirely accurate.
