From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 15 16:34:01 2004 Return-Path: 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 A423816A4CE; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:34:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB9343D2F; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:33:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0901E1674EB; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:33:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8FGXuGV099827 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:33:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:33:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20040915093120.3067472e@dolphin.local.net> <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1489117.LYaq4SpHDm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409151833.55714.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: "Jack L. Stone" cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Subject: Re: Drop of portindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:34:01 -0000 --nextPart1489117.LYaq4SpHDm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 15 September 2004 17:44, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 11:21 AM 9.15.2004 -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > > >Let it be, people, and stop attacking other developers. > > > ># Adam > > Obviously, we all won't agree, but I think you should be more concerned > about the damages this did to the ports' credibility. Up until now, I have > always "trusted" the ports -- some of that has diminished because of this > episode. Yes, that concerns me as well. One thing that surely can be learnt from thi= s=20 episode is that ports committers (not excluding myself here) need to be mor= e=20 careful about the licensing situation of software before committing it to=20 ports (I was told previous version of portindex had stuff like "(c) 2004=20 Radim Kolar, GPL" in one source file and "public domain" in another, but n= o=20 general license attached to the whole package). I'm not saying we need to go debian on the ports-tree and waste valuable ti= me=20 doing endless licensing reviews and ridiculous debating, but things like=20 portindex clearly must not be committed that easily in the future. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1489117.LYaq4SpHDm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBSG7zXhc68WspdLARArpGAJ0Sbn7UIdO5bztOkMsfja5V7+cQEgCgosnb LWqaDQRfi9HfVWzPd0XTV80= =C4t0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1489117.LYaq4SpHDm--