Date: 30 Mar 2002 15:14:08 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> 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: ports/36433: new port: microsoft sscli Message-ID: <1017494052.262.52.camel@notebook> 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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--=-fcAaQuHifP19hvkKE3SW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 13:27, 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? > >> >>=20 > >> >> 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 strongl= y > >> >> recommend enough that this PR be closed with utmost prejudice and t= he port > >> >> NEVER added. At all. > >> >>=20 > >> >> This is just one huge big hole saying "sue me". Really. > >> > > >> >Ooh, sorry folks, I committed my own version of the port (I was worki= ng > >> >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. > >>=20 > >> This is a joke, right? > > > >Nope - see ports/lang/cli. >=20 > 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 th= e > ports tree without anyone at all knowing it was happening. Are you reading cvs-all? If so, you should know it. We don't have a policy that each added port should be announced or that committer has to put his new port in the PR before committing it. > 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]. Port contains all levels of protection available from bsd.port.mk - distfile will not be mirrored, package will not be automatically built and as a result not be available neither from the official FreeBSD CDROM nor from ftp download location. Downloading source tarball could not cause any troubles, because source downloading isn't restricted - what is restricted is usage of the compiled binaries. Moreover, I've just added a piece of code to make it impossible to install the software without reading of license and agreeing to it first. This should satisfy all paranoidal users. In general: people please go sane. If Microsoft released those sources, it certainly knew that they will be downloaded and compiled on FreeBSD boxes. IMO there is no need to suspect that they released it just to sue naive FreeBSD'ers. -Maxim --=-fcAaQuHifP19hvkKE3SW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8pbogoNu5t4iCBa8RAi9aAJ99k4B/oP23vc0rwpZ3/I10cqiyaACfcMPN z34CgyUepzvpHHNCGWZ5wDI= =8bgY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fcAaQuHifP19hvkKE3SW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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