Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:43:43 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, itetcu@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> Subject: Re: expiration of net/skype ?! Message-ID: <20110426094343.765dbf41.itetcu@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110426002916.GF10901@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4DB60812.1000109@users.sf.net> <20110426002916.GF10901@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:29:16 +1000 Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> wrote: > On 2011-Apr-26 01:47:30 +0200, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> wrote: > >So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? > > Whilst the Skype port still works, the version of Skype referenced by > the port is no longer available and later versions of Skype do not > (currently) work on FreeBSD. My reading of the Skype license suggests > that the FreeBSD Project cannot host the distfile without an agreement > with Skype. This means that someone who doesn't currently have the > Skype distfile cannot install the Skype port. True, and we've kept it like this for a long time. I have asked people at skype to allow us to redistribute the distfile, but that's impossible for legal reasons (not theirs). > I believe work is underway to support the currently available version > of Skype. It is, and it's kinda workoing on HEAD plus some patches. One thing all of oyu could do is bug skype on their forums to provide an OSS version; I recently argued about that with their linux product manager, so more voices would help. -- Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
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