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From: Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>
To: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Kris Moore wrote:

>
> Wanted to run this by the ports community, see your thoughts. We build
> our PBIs from the ports system, and are able to parse most of the
> information out for display graphically, like descriptions, maintainers,
> website, License, etc. However we currently don't have a way to pull the
> actual name of the upstream vendor / author. I.E. for Firefox the vendor
> would be "Mozilla".

WWW: [Mozilla](http://www.mozilla.org/)

So, markdown format in pkg-descr. Seems the least amount of work?