From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 08:02:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7EB16A418 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970CD13C448 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C40172218807; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:54 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <475F95AE00009DD12BB283@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D18A21B131C; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:54 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BBD2218805; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:54 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E1FC8249; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:53 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:53 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Tuomo Valkonen Message-ID: <20071212080253.GD40969@k7.mavetju> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ion3 license violation 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: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:02:55 -0000 On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:22:50AM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > Since the so-called package "maintainer" seems to have gone AWOL > (as is typical): Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-wm/ion-3/Makefile. There have been 8 updates of this piece of software in that time. You state "the version distributed online may not significantly differ from the original author's latest stable release (resp. latest release on the branch) within a reasonable delay (normally 28 days)." You don't say "Not more than 28 days", you suggest 28 days as a reasonable delay for you. Due to the ports freeze there have been no normal software updates for about month in the FreeBSD ports tree. That is a normal delay in the lifecycle of the FreeBSD software. Not everybody is agreeing on it, but it is considered a normal delay. To quote a friend: cvs rm -rf ; cvs commit -m "Your license sucks. Your code sucks. You suck. Happy Christmas." I hope that is not what you were after... Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/