From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 17:20:45 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 3F7A516A417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:20:45 +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 D0AF813C448 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:20:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2rH7-0004XJ-Rh for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:51:05 +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 ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:51:05 +0000 Received: from tuomov by jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:51:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Tuomo Valkonen Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <20071212183542.f9bf5e55.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200712121930.46708.mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> <20071213021217.GA3535@soaustin.net> <20071213080139.GA14110@soaustin.net> <20071213090833.GA15789@soaustin.net> <20071213090059.d5d6b6e7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20071213152140.GA29428@soaustin.net> <20071213112432.239eb2a8.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 removal (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: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:20:45 -0000 On 2007-12-13, Bill Moran wrote: > I had a lawyer tell me exactly what you said: That verbal agreements > _are_ legally binding, but almost never enforceable. That may be because typical verbal agreements are difficult to prove. However, a statement on, say, a public mailing list is more provable. Of course, there's the question whether the message was really written by the person the message claims to be from. This situation could be improved by the person in question having a habit of signing messages (or, say, the software releases themselves) with PGP. Of course, that's not 100% reliable, but neither are ink-on-paper signatures. -- Tuomo