From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 03:47:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA92016A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 03:47:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AA7C43D1F for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 03:47:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.105?) (tacopants@70.25.208.134 with plain) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 May 2005 03:47:41 -0000 Message-ID: <4292A3E1.3020707@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 23:47:45 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-CA; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Thunderbird/1.0 OMFG PANTS X-Accept-Language: en-ca, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harald Schmalzbauer References: <200505232317.29017@harrymail> <42924A59.1080108@FreeBSD.org> <200505240333.23843@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <200505240333.23843@harrymail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What happened to milter-sender? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 03:47:43 -0000 Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Am Montag, 23. Mai 2005 23:25 schrieb Adam Weinberger: > >>Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I was wondering why I can't find milter-sende in the ports tree, but >>>google found commit messages, so it has been there once. >>>(last activity I found was the UPDATING remark on 20040709, I cc'd to >>>the author) >>> >>>Thanks for any hints, >>> >>>-Harry >>> >>>P.S.: Please CC to me, I'm not subscribed >> >>It's been gone for nearly half a year now. Looks like another stupid >>licence-related issue. Also, vs was not the author; he's just the guy >>who took care of removing the port. >> >># Adam >> >> >>Revision 1.44, Thu Dec 2 10:00:26 2004 UTC (5 months, 2 weeks ago) by vs >>Branch: MAIN >>CVS Tags: HEAD >>Changes since 1.43: +1 -1 lines >>FILE REMOVED > > > Thanks a lot for that excerpt. Since the source code is still officially > available I could cvsup against my local mirror and salvage this great > port by setting the date as tag. > The port had alread been marked RESTRICTED, and the source code ist still > available, so I don't have any idea why it had to be removed... > > Thanks, > > -Harry > > >>Remove mail/milter-sender on author's request. It might be resurrected >>in the future when the software is commercially available again. It had to be removed for the exact reason stated in the commit message: the author requested that it be. If you want to see the port return, see if you can talk the author into allowing it. I frankly think it's a shame when authors request that their software be pulled... it's usually requested for the most ridiculous of reasons. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx