From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 09:55:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org 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 DBC1616A41C; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:55:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50C043D1D; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:55:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4C52514A6E; Tue, 24 May 2005 04:55:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 04:55:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Harald Schmalzbauer In-Reply-To: <200505241141.05622@harrymail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Adam Weinberger , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What happened to milter-sender? 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: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:55:49 -0000 On Tue, 24 May 2005, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > I'm not sure if he knows the kind what a "port" does He knows exactly and clearly and unambiguously what a port does. I personally, myself, explained this to him last month in a series of email exchanges between himself and the portmgr team. He does not allow any distribution of his software if there are patches accompanying them. At all. As per his insistence, all of the ports that included his software were removed at that time. It is not possible for FreeBSD to do otherwise; we must respect software authors' rights. We have no control over what policy he wants to pursue in this case. Mark Linimon, acting as portmgr