Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:45:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: "David A. Bader" <dbader@eece.unm.edu> Cc: will@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/12188: New port: pbs-2.1.11 (misc/PBS) a batch scheduler Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0004222205300.7640-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <200004230101.TAA00723@eece.unm.edu>
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David A. Bader wrote: > Rationale: there are several Linux clustering projects (Beowulf, > ExtremeLinux, TurboLinux, etc.) that aim to provide all the tools to > use Linux in high-performance cluster computing. This sort of thing is the height of fashion and has attracted a lot of favorable attention for the Linux folks. Will Andrews wrote: > > Does this program really belong in the ports collection? It seems > > that no one has any interest in it.. since it is RESTRICTED and > > isn't terribly useful as well as being fairly difficult to > > obtain.. would you mind if I removed this PR from the database? I am not a lawyer, but from my reading of the license (which can be displayed by browsing http://pbs.mrj.com/license.php3\?site_id=anonymous) it looks to me as though we could include this program as a package on CD-ROMs and mirror the distfile, so long as the license is not removed from the distfile (assuming it is in there--I didn't feel like filling out their survey) and is printed before the package is installed. It looks like putting it in pkg/MESSAGE would achieve this. The license reads like a BSD license with the old advertising clause--no more restrictive than the license on FreeBSD itself was last July (see /usr/src/COPYRIGHT). > > I think perhaps if people want to install PBS they could read a > > howto instead of usin a port. It's strange to read such seeming dismissal of the ports collection from someone who has contributed so much to it. -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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