From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 00:30:43 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 BD6A416A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:30:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE1E43D2F for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:30:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32621F446C for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (caduceus.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42419-06 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [64.32.179.50]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0746B1F446F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:30:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4148DEA3.7070306@wingfoot.org> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:30:27 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb Organization: Wingfoot Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Thunderbird/0.8 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20040915093120.3067472e@dolphin.local.net> <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com> <200409151833.55714.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040915175615.11c92103@zork> <4148DDC5.403@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <4148DDC5.403@kutulu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at wingfoot.org 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: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:30:43 -0000 Mike Edenfield said the following on 9/15/2004 8:26 PM: > Of course, the author clearly doesn't want his software distributed, > so it would (IMO) violate the spirit of community software development > to go against his wishes, but the legal footing for the package is > pretty confusing. I'd be more concerned with what else he's planning on contributing and yanking back when it gets "too popular." Didn't he mention working on writable ufs2 snapshots? What would happen to his contributed code should he decide to pull a "portindex" again? :-/ Best, Glenn -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759