From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 20:22:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2444116A468 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:22:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEA013C4E5 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Xyn-0005yb-SB for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:14:53 +0000 Received: from jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi ([130.230.72.144]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:14:53 +0000 Received: from tuomov by jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:14:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Tuomo Valkonen Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <20071212073944.GC29211@soaustin.net> <20071212080932.GA30438@soaustin.net> <20071212083658.GA31114@soaustin.net> <47602AC8.7060609@csub.edu> <476030F0.50501@csub.edu> <20071212142045.de0dcc7e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: news Subject: Re: Ion3 license violation X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:22:30 -0000 On 2007-12-12, Bill Moran wrote: > It's impossible for the FreeBSD ports system to guarantee compliance with > his arbitrarily chosen "28 days" rule. There is no "28 days" rule. There is a "latest release in 28 days or prominently mark (potentially) obsolete" rule. You can make the marking permanent, always requiring users to acknowledge a message. You can make the marking automatic, by checking the website for a new release (as Debian presently does), or by some more sophisticated means or dead man triggers. You may not be able to distribute such binary packages with your present setup, but source should be enough. You may even simply have the package download and install http://iki.fi/tuomov/dl/ion-3-latest.tar.gz (signature in http://iki.fi/tuomov/dl/ion-3-latest.tar.gz.asc). Even if I made the number 280 days, distros would still complain. It's not about the days. The greatest difficulty to complying with the license are the idealist blockages in your head. -- Tuomo