Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:30:27 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb <ges+lists@wingfoot.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drop of portindex Message-ID: <4148DEA3.7070306@wingfoot.org> In-Reply-To: <4148DDC5.403@kutulu.org> References: <20040915093120.3067472e@dolphin.local.net> <3.0.5.32.20040915104438.01f2dda0@sage-american.com> <200409151833.55714.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040915175615.11c92103@zork> <4148DDC5.403@kutulu.org>
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Mike Edenfield said the following on 9/15/2004 8:26 PM:
> Of course, the author clearly doesn't want his software distributed,
> so it would (IMO) violate the spirit of community software development
> to go against his wishes, but the legal footing for the package is
> pretty confusing.
I'd be more concerned with what else he's planning on contributing and
yanking back when it gets "too popular."
Didn't he mention working on writable ufs2 snapshots? What would happen
to his contributed code should he decide to pull a "portindex" again? :-/
Best,
Glenn
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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