Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 12:05:34 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/112838: x11-wm/ion-3ds: bump, make fetchable, rename, remove old cruft Message-ID: <20070605100534.GM45756@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070605095457.GR38419@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> References: <20070521173705.4952B1CD46@palm.hoeg.nl> <200705211740.l4LHeEWJ082261@freefall.freebsd.org> <20070604133814.GE45756@hoeg.nl> <20070605095457.GR38419@fasolt.home.paeps.cx>
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--8c07nsHwQobhlezh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Philip, * Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 2007-06-04 15:38:14 (+0200), Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> wrote: > > As I've read online the license of Ion3 has turned sour. The author has > > ammended the license to the source with new clauses which enforces rules > > which the FreeBSD package model can't guarantee, including a rule that > > forces all packages to be beyond a version of a certain age. > >=20 > > Please remove the x11-wm/ion-3ds port from the tree. Under such harsh > > conditions I'm not willing to maintain a port for this window manager. >=20 > I've grabbed maintainership. I like ion, despite the licence. ;-) >=20 > The licence change was made mainly to prevent "ordinary users" from getti= ng an > ancient version when they ask their package manager for "ion". It is mai= nly > aimed at certain Linux distributions who peg their package managers to th= eir > releases and never update packages on releases. >=20 > Since the ports tree is not tagged, this is not really a problem for us. = When > people ask for "ion" from the ports (ion-3, actually), they'll get the la= test > version -- provided the maintainer is somewhat alive, which I'll do my be= st to > be -- which is precisely what the licence wants. I guess that problem still persists if someone on a FreeBSD 5.x box runs `pkg_add -r ion-3ds', because then the user gets the outdated package. But IANAL ;-) > But never mind all that. I'll happily maintain the port for you. I'll t= ry to > be as good a parent as you've been. :-) Thanks! Be sure to look at the patch I in the PR. I guess you can commit it without the Xinerama bits in it; maybe you could introduce a flag called WITH_FEATURES_THAT_REMOVE_SUPPORT that enables all options that void support in some way... Good luck! :) --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> WWW: http://g-rave.nl/ --8c07nsHwQobhlezh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGZTVu52SDGA2eCwURAoYPAJ9XXiWZ3xNqpQAPCxZcDF3MHRYMFwCfTkPx LmUhp+7+1VCKRUb6vBbzrjo= =rJGX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8c07nsHwQobhlezh--
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