Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:34:49 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th Message-ID: <201204101234.q3ACYniS011864@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:09:20 -0000." <CADLo838-VS6JCKhg6ZQnZVWY6rNraPr125utDwXkFarCxoQU6g@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Chris, > I understand your viewpoint, but given the horrible experiences > certain people had on this kind of thing (you were around then, too), > I think that the 'make a fork and port that instead' is perfectly > reasonable. At least then the software has a maintainer. > > Chris OK, if people will repack rather than loosing; though creating replacement ports wrappers with new names will be hastle not only for freebsd.org, but also for FreeBSD users who may have their own overlay trees of eg ports/*/Makefile.local with SUBDIR+= a port. (hastle of variant SUBDIR += needing to be maintained for different uname -r bases for various local hosts). When a generic author causes trouble, trying to unpublish published sources, I suggest FreeBSD insures itself against more trouble by adding a list of people prepared to witness they saw the published sources with attached licence, at which URL, on what date. Witnesses need not be users of a port, nor programmers (so a wider pool). If some witnesses are non users of a port, it may be seen as more independent. Maintainer of mail/imaptools (Boris) is welcome to add me to a list of witnesses: Distfile:\ SIZE:\ MD5:\ URL:\ WITNESS:\ CONTACT:\ DATE imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz:\ 108952:\ a7c34141b7512bff69f6ea86952c83bb:\ http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/%5Bpage=123%5D \ -> \ http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz\ Julian H. Stacey:\ http://berklix.com/~jhs/contact/:\ Tue Apr 10 14:30:17 CEST 2012 Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/
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