Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 06:39:50 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Port Mgr <portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG>, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, Anders Nor Berle <debolaz@debolaz.com>, Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Subject: Re: lang/cli (Microsoft Shared Source CLI) committed. Message-ID: <20020330113950.GA97028@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20020330112715.GA96547@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <B8CA830D.B2E0%ade@FreeBSD.org> <1017475582.27979.28.camel@notebook> <20020330082700.GA64622@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <1017484309.27979.30.camel@notebook> <20020330112715.GA96547@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:27:15AM -0500, Alan Eldridge wrote: >On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:34:41PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >>On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 10:27, Alan Eldridge wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:06:30AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >>> >On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 04:46, Ade Lovett wrote: >>> >> On 03/29/02 15:03, "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" <lioux@FreeBSD.org> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > Something like that. I just thought of this. Any of you >>> >> > guys with legalese expertise can help? >>> >> >>> >> Having looked at the documents in question, and running a couple by our >>> >> legal people here (for the mere price of a lunch), I cannot strongly >>> >> recommend enough that this PR be closed with utmost prejudice and the port >>> >> NEVER added. At all. >>> >> >>> >> This is just one huge big hole saying "sue me". Really. >>> > >>> >Ooh, sorry folks, I committed my own version of the port (I was working >>> >on it during the past three days) before reading my e-mail. If there is >>> >no objections I'd be glad to merge my version with one from 36433. >>> >>> This is a joke, right? >> >>Nope - see ports/lang/cli. > >No PR? No announcement? No discussion of whether it should be there >at all? I really think that it should not have been quietly snuck into the >ports tree without anyone at all knowing it was happening. > >At the very least, I think you should disable fetching (the way the jdk >ports do). If it can be automatically fetched you are placing people at >legal risk, possibly without their knowledge. I'm sure M$ keeps track of >every IP address that downloads that source tarball. IMO it would be >even better if it was removed until it is officially cleared to be >there, if it's deemed safe[1]. > >Note: >[1] Running over a minefield is "safe", for certain values of "safe". >-- >AlanE >"Fine. Get your money." -- Micro$oft's Craig Mundie, responding to >comment about the cost of defending against patent infringment claims. >http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/linux/2001/08/09/oscon_panel.html Correction of "subject" line: question is not whether to commit, but what to do now that it's happened. -- AlanE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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