Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:32:23 +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: <20070605113223.GT38419@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070605100534.GM45756@hoeg.nl> References: <20070521173705.4952B1CD46@palm.hoeg.nl> <200705211740.l4LHeEWJ082261@freefall.freebsd.org> <20070604133814.GE45756@hoeg.nl> <20070605095457.GR38419@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> <20070605100534.GM45756@hoeg.nl>
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On 2007-06-05 12:05:34 (+0200), Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> wrote: > * 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. > > > > [...] > > 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. > > 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 `pkg_add -r ion-3ds', because then the user gets the outdated package.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 ;-) True. I had forgotten about the binary packages case. I guess we'll need to set NO_PACKAGE for this. But I'll check this with Tuomo first on IRC. Cheers, - Philip -- Philip Paeps My opinions are philip@freebsd.org Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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