From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 04:16:46 2004 Return-Path: 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 5B61B16A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nerdshack.com (mail.nerdshack.com [206.123.69.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F2C43D2F for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:16:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rbyrnes@mailshack.com) Received: from cartman.mailshack.com (dialup-155.104.221.203.acc51-kent-syd.comindico.com.au [203.221.104.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nerdshack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE3D8BC061; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:16:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20040914140834.0264fd60@mail.nerdshack.com> X-Sender: rbyrnes@mail.nerdshack.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:16:22 +1000 To: Radek Kozlowski From: Rob B In-Reply-To: <20040913225637.GA12665@werd> References: <20040913225637.GA12665@werd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: FreeBSD-Ports Subject: Re: Drop of portindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:16:46 -0000 At 08:56 AM 14/09/2004, Radek Kozlowski wrote: >On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:19:35PM -0700, Jonathan Weiss wrote: > > Cheers, > > > > > > I just noticed that portindex was removed from the ports-tree: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/71534 > > > > I just started to use portindex as an faster replacement for portsdb and I > > ask myself if there are any issues with further using it. > > > > Are there any problems with portindex or why it is dropped? > >Radim, can you please clarify under what licence you've released the >previous versions of portindex? > >I have to say that I'm very surprised by your decision, as portindex is >a great program and many people (myself included) started to like it >(and use it). Pity. I would say, from reading the pr, and the fact that there is no licence specified, that the author has released it into the public domain - as well as relinquishing copyright. Since the licence on this version has either been changed or not specified, anyone could possibly pick up the project. Cheers, Rob -- Antibiotics, she said. This is random quote 267 of 1265. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5