Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:54:57 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/112838: x11-wm/ion-3ds: bump, make fetchable, rename, remove old cruft Message-ID: <20070605095457.GR38419@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070604133814.GE45756@hoeg.nl> References: <20070521173705.4952B1CD46@palm.hoeg.nl> <200705211740.l4LHeEWJ082261@freefall.freebsd.org> <20070604133814.GE45756@hoeg.nl>
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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.
>
> 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.
I've grabbed maintainership. I like ion, despite the licence. ;-)
The licence change was made mainly to prevent "ordinary users" from getting an
ancient version when they ask their package manager for "ion". It is mainly
aimed at certain Linux distributions who peg their package managers to their
releases and never update packages on releases.
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 latest
version -- provided the maintainer is somewhat alive, which I'll do my best to
be -- which is precisely what the licence wants.
But never mind all that. I'll happily maintain the port for you. I'll try to
be as good a parent as you've been. :-)
- Philip
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