From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 07:25:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA2D16A41A for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:25:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0480913C4CE for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:25:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Lxm-0002DS-OT for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:25:02 +0000 Received: from jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi ([130.230.72.144]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:25:02 +0000 Received: from tuomov by jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:25:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Tuomo Valkonen Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 20 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: news Subject: Ion3 license violation X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:25:08 -0000 Since the so-called package "maintainer" seems to have gone AWOL (as is typical): The version of Ion3 in FreeBSD ports at [1,2] is obsolete (3rc-20070927 is provided, but 3rc-20071109 is more than 28 days old), and must per the license be upgraded, removed, or prominently marked as obsolete. The package also seems to "patch" Ion with the Xinerama module, again violating the license. (The way the package installs it, makes it appear to be an official part of Ion, which it is not, and therefore when it is installed, the result must be considered a modified/patched version of Ion, which requires very explicit requests from the user and prominent notices of unsupportedness.) [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-wm/ion-3/ [2]: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/philip/ -- Tuomo