From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 00:17:50 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 2E10116A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:17:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F3143D2D for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:17:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm@inbox.lv) Received: from pool0074.cvx35-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.12.74] helo=ringworm.mechee.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C7jy8-00017a-00 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:17:49 -0700 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DA3DAB478F; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:18:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:18:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20040915093120.3067472e@dolphin.local.net> <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com> <200409151833.55714.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200409151833.55714.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409151718.31270.ringworm@inbox.lv> Subject: Re: Drop of portindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ringworm@inbox.lv List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:17:50 -0000 On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:33, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > 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 > this episode is that ports committers (not excluding myself here) need to > be more careful about the licensing situation of software before committing > it to ports (I was told previous version of portindex had stuff like "(c) > 2004 Radim Kolar, GPL" in one source file and "public domain" in another, > but no general license attached to the whole package). > > I'm not saying we need to go debian on the ports-tree and waste valuable > time doing endless licensing reviews and ridiculous debating, but things > like portindex clearly must not be committed that easily in the future. I say in how many years that FreeBSD and ports existed has this sort of thing occurred? First time I've seen such a thing, and I've been using FreeBSD since Version 2.0 so I say let this episode pass, no need for any new rules. -Mike