From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 03:14:31 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9AADFDA4; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from village.abthorpe.org (abthorpe.org [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a464::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74FD6B07; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by village.abthorpe.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 351F3B2024; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:14:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:14:31 -0400 From: Thomas Abthorpe To: marino@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LPPL10 license consequences intended? (arabic/arabtex) Message-ID: <20140329031431.GA21162@village.abthorpe.org> References: <532DC88A.7010104@marino.st> <532DFDB2.1090200@cyberleo.net> <532ED19F.1090100@marino.st> <533541E5.6040003@marino.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <533541E5.6040003@marino.st> X-URL: http://www.abthorpe.org/ X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe/tabthorpe.asc X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xD9371097A473C990 X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: D883 2D7C EB78 944A 69FC 36A6 D937 1097 A473 C990 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: CyberLeo Kitsana , Kevin Oberman , "ports@FreeBSD.org Ports" , Nicola Vitale X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:14:31 -0000 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:33:25AM +0100, John Marino wrote: > It's been a few days and there's been no response to this. > Should I assume that tabthorpe@ read this but is not prepared to review > his work? There is an old adage about assumptions, I am sure you know what it is. Maybe I am just ignoring you. Maybe, just maybe, my mail system has been sideways for a week, and this is the first time I have been able to sit down and properly catch up on emails. You decide what answer suits you best. >=20 > if that is the case, what is the step forward here? All this license > stuff is a black box to me and I'd really like to see someone designated > as the license "guru" (and similarly a legal guru) to give definite > answers to questions like these. I think that nobody is fully > comfortable with this and everyone expects somebody else to take action. >=20 > I would like a ruling on LPPL10 very soon as it potentially affects many > important tex ports. Who is in a position to make the call? I hesitate > to mail to portmgr@ because my last 3-4 topics have never been resolved > and mostly ignored by them as a group, so saying "send a message to > portmgr@" is equivalent to telling me to send it to a black hole. > (Hopefully with the turnover it's less like this in the future but so > far it seems the same as always) >=20 > I'm not really trying to be provocative but there are a number of > "somebody really should fix that" issues going around but the fixes > aren't getting organized so in the end nothing happens (again, I think > this is do to everyone expecting somebody to organize/lead the effort > before they jump in) >=20 > Regards, > John >=20 Long story short, I have been extremely distracted by life outside of FreeBSD, as a result I will be stepping down from my responsibilities later this spring, as I have not been able to deal with everything on my plate. If you would like to take over the licensing stuff, I will be happy to assign your name to it. Thomas --=20 Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEbBAEBAgAGBQJTNjqXAAoJENk3EJekc8mQpDQH91t+b1OGrEoJnMTnjcYOtRQP xvsdhgimUGP33qbZv2U4GJ6ICtEoGSYXHxJaUz/iyfP0HyEtB/akKwKLhacCtlUd 96AhSwcIEAnfsw6oXdaIUI+gfV82XL6u4bbmU5bSNFhm+2zcQzsn9gHAgEuFUuc1 tmiqNqsEtlUydWXBpdjv9gAGUBnZcRXtqXeoS6I6+pEBvjpXW/YpzUFoU3Pr+pq6 pxbD7ANSpVgbiKDvQcFZDe6E7t58dcWa1u/m5xeMViDvcVddDjltqVMn6GjPoAYm 0BYhddXq7B07ywlWKuZNUOUNkMFRWFW7K+7Ki8O2ZQd1H5lzP9oIz7YCy72Ggg== =X5Rw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--