Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:22:13 -0700 From: Vadim Mikhailov <freebsd-bugs@mikhailov.org> To: Radim Kolar <hsn@netmag.cz> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drop of portindex Message-ID: <41493115.4090207@mikhailov.org>
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Hi, >> Are there any problems with portindex? >No, there were some minor problems with annoying portindex's users, > but there have been fully fixed today by killing portindex. >> Radim, can you please clarify under what licence you've released the previous >> versions of portindex? >There was no licence actually, i have forgot it. Thanks God for it! This my >mistake makes killing portindex very easy. Copyright laws disables use and >distribuition unless you have permission from by author, which you don't have. As a matter of fact, we do: > egrep "(GPL|Public)" /usr/local/share/portindex/* bsdpkg.py:# Public domain freebsdports.py:# GPL v2 indexer.py:# (c) Radim Kolar 2004, GPL minorupdates.py:# Public domain pointupdates.py:# Public domain stealthupdates.py:# Public domain updateall.py:# Public domain updatereadmes.py:# GPL v2 As we can see, almost each file in portindex collection is either GPL or public domain. > Folks, portindex is now history. Not so fast. Vadim Mikhailov.
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