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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:11 +0000
From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc: Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r474572 - in head: archivers/freeze biology/blat
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 01:48:58PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:45:06PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > So now we're deprecating otherwise fine and non-broken software just
> > because of the license?  Why?!
> 
> Well, fwiw, because of the "license" definition, they can never be built
> on the cluster.  So there's no way to tell if they even build or not,
> unless you try them yourself.
> 
> IMVHO the whole "license=NONE" thing is a total botch.

OK, so how about we ditch this "license=NONE" thing (or adjust the meaning
of it) instead of ditching the software it prevents from building?

Again, I find this bad for our users and disrespectful towards the original
contributors who invested their time in porting.  Deprecating broken or
defunct software is one thing (also moot, FWIW), but deprecating something
just because its author(s) did not care to put some proper license is the
other, it looks bad and gives us bad impression.

./danfe