From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 2 18:32:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA22059 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 18:32:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA22054 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 18:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem06.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.36]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA04466 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:35:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <331A6198.1D0E@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 21:28:56 -0800 From: Pedro Giffuni X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: License restrictions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy, I was looking into a possible BMRT port, and I found the author doesn't want his software mirrored in order to distribute only the absolute latest version. My conclusion is the software shouldn't be mirrored but it can nevertheless be distributed in the CD (of course I would like to check this out with the author also). I wonder how such a scheme could be handled in the ports tree. FreeBSD shouldn't mirror most binary distribution files anyway...in order to keep only the latest versions and so that we won't have identical distfiles and packages. So.. how is this handled? Any BIN_DIST flag or similar? Pedro.