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To cut all these discussions short:

George,

I'll ask you as the first author of said page,

- what was the concern or motivation that led to the creation of this page?

- How are FreeBSD ports special if they use GPLv3?

- Why does FreeBSD need to track GPLv3 ports at all?

Thanks.
Matthias