Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:39:12 -0600 (MDT) From: "David A. Bader" <dbader@eece.unm.edu> To: trevor@jpj.net 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: <200004230339.VAA00863@eece.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0004222205300.7640-100000@blues.jpj.net> (message from Trevor Johnson on Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:45:47 -0400 (EDT)) References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0004222205300.7640-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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Trevor, Thanks. If we (FreeBSD) need any further permission from the MRJ/PBS folks, I have a good contact, James Patton Jones <jjones@pbs.mrj.com>, who may be able to help us. I'm not a lawyer either ;) At the University of New Mexico, I co-lead several projects that provide some of the largest high-performance PC clusters for National Science (NSF) use. We work with companies and researchers who want Linux because of its PR, but would probably do better technically with the maturity of FreeBSD. If we had these ports, we could further encourage the use of FreeBSD on these high visability projects. -david > Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:45:47 -0400 (EDT) > From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> > cc: will@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > X-Sorted: Default > > 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 > > -- David A. Bader, Ph.D. Office: 505-277-6724 Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering FAX: 505-277-1439 EECE Building University of New Mexico dbader@eece.unm.edu Albuquerque, NM 87131 http://www.eece.unm.edu/~dbader To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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