Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:33:54 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Subject: Re: Drop of portindex Message-ID: <200409151833.55714.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com> References: <20040915093120.3067472e@dolphin.local.net> <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com>
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--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--
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