From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 07:02:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E251065670 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (worf.ds9.tecnik93.com [81.196.207.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C8D8FC16 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from User-PC (unknown [81.181.146.246]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 25E6A22C5513; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:43:46 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:43:43 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Peter Jeremy Message-Id: <20110426094343.765dbf41.itetcu@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110426002916.GF10901@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4DB60812.1000109@users.sf.net> <20110426002916.GF10901@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, martinko Subject: Re: expiration of net/skype ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:02:42 -0000 On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:29:16 +1000 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Apr-26 01:47:30 +0200, martinko wrote: > >So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? > > Whilst the Skype port still works, the version of Skype referenced by > the port is no longer available and later versions of Skype do not > (currently) work on FreeBSD. My reading of the Skype license suggests > that the FreeBSD Project cannot host the distfile without an agreement > with Skype. This means that someone who doesn't currently have the > Skype distfile cannot install the Skype port. True, and we've kept it like this for a long time. I have asked people at skype to allow us to redistribute the distfile, but that's impossible for legal reasons (not theirs). > I believe work is underway to support the currently available version > of Skype. It is, and it's kinda workoing on HEAD plus some patches. One thing all of oyu could do is bug skype on their forums to provide an OSS version; I recently argued about that with their linux product manager, so more voices would help. -- Ion-Mihai Tetcu