From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 1 11:23:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413FA1065670; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.ipv6.droso.net [IPv6:2001:6c8:6:c:20d:56ff:fe6f:f935]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27D38FC2A; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 26A271CC38; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:23:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:23:24 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing To: Dmitry Marakasov Message-ID: <20091001112323.GA26407@droso.net> References: <20090930100658.GA99090@obspm.fr> <20090930110508.GA50565@hades.panopticon> <20090930161915.GA18014@lonesome.com> <20091001111417.GF50565@hades.panopticon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MvEh5MSbieV/1Yst" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091001111417.GF50565@hades.panopticon> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:47:18 +0000 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon , ion-general@lists.berlios.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Albert Shih Subject: Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:23:26 -0000 --MvEh5MSbieV/1Yst Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 03:14:17PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Mark Linimon (linimon@lonesome.com) wrote: >=20 > > As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the > > developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has > > previously done to several other BSDs and several Linux distributions. > > This is why ports for his software are no longer available for these > > platforms. > > > > Whether the license has changed or not, the fact that the author feels > > the desire to use lawsuits to achieve his goals makes his software too > > much of a liability for FreeBSD to redistribute. >=20 > Well we can set RESTRICTED if that's a problem, then we will not be > distributing anything. I can mirror a distfile under my personal > responsibility. The license forbids this software to be in the tree, so with my portmgr hat on I ask you not to add this to the tree again. >=20 > Actually I think that the weirdnesses of an author should not be a > reason against using useful software or making it available for use Such is the legal system, and we are at the authors whim. -erwin > by other people, if there's no real legal threat. They may be a cause > for stagnation/death of a project, but that's another story. > As another argument, Debian and Ubuntu haven't ever removed packages > for ion3, just making a user agree with that the software may be > obsolete and unsupported. I believe they know what they're doing. >=20 > But I'll still mail ahze (who removed the port) and adamw (who > maintained it last). >=20 > --=20 > Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D > amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org --MvEh5MSbieV/1Yst Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKxJErqy9aWxUlaZARAuekAJ4p9EZ569G6KfWnjEClXCmTOehkEgCdEwgC eNGDMVu+olaarva6tPdsor0= =aHV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MvEh5MSbieV/1Yst--