Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:43:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@iki.fi> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ion3 removal (Re: Ion3 license violation) Message-ID: <slrnfm2h7r.23v.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> References: <20071212213200.D576216A469@hub.freebsd.org> <200712121701.57460.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20071212183542.f9bf5e55.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200712121930.46708.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20071213021217.GA3535@soaustin.net> <slrnfm1ol8.mqu.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> <20071213080139.GA14110@soaustin.net> <slrnfm1rce.so4.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> <20071213090833.GA15789@soaustin.net> <slrnfm21lc.7a5.tuomov@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> <20071213090059.d5d6b6e7.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On 2007-12-13, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > Did you not understand the part where Mark described the requirement to > avoid possible legal trouble? Which part of my reply did you not understand? And at least where I come from, contracts are legally enforceable, even if they're only oral ones -- which would certainly include permissions given on a public mailing list. > *) FreeBSD has agreed to remove the offending port in order to comply > with your license requirements. However, you continue to complain. And you continue to spread misinformation, which I want to correct. > *) _Anyone_ could submit a patch to the port to abide by your license > requirements and it's likely that it will be committed, yet > _nobody_ has. Wrong; see a recent post by the portmgr. > Even you, Tuomo, claim to have bold and revolutionary > ideas on package distribution yet would rather argue than WRITE A > PATCH AND SUBMIT IT! Beyond that, you've _IGNORED_ posts that I've > made in the past suggesting this. I have other things to do than learn yet another packaging system. Those things include fixing things in Ion3, so that a stable release could eventually be made. > *) You blame "distro folks" as abusing developers and expecting them > to just provide free work, then you turn around an complain that > the FreeBSD people should bend over backwards to accommodate the > software you wrote. You're doing the _exact_ thing you accuse > others of doing. As others have stated, it's not difficult to comply with the license. But people are getting paranoid. > *) You continually abuse this mailing list by twisting other persons > posts to your agenda by snipping relevant information, replying > only to the parts that you want to, and redirecting the meaning of > other posts. Good to hear you're not alone. > Please go somewhere that you can find emotional healing Tuomo. I, for > one, will be glad to see you return as a sane person but have no desire > to watch this thread continue as long as you're sick. Healthy mind in a healthy body. The social body of the FOSS movement is sick. -- Tuomo
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