Hi Chris,
> I understand your viewpoint, but given the horrible experiences
> certain people had on this kind of thing (you were around then, too),
> I think that the 'make a fork and port that instead' is perfectly
> reasonable. At least then the software has a maintainer.
>
> Chris
OK, if people will repack rather than loosing; though creating
replacement ports wrappers with new names will be hastle not only
for freebsd.org, but also for FreeBSD users who may have their
own overlay trees of eg ports/*/Makefile.local with SUBDIR+= a port.
(hastle of variant SUBDIR += needing to be maintained for different
uname -r bases for various local hosts).
When a generic author causes trouble, trying to unpublish published
sources, I suggest FreeBSD insures itself against more trouble
by adding a list of people prepared to witness they saw the
published sources with attached licence, at which URL, on what date.
Witnesses need not be users of a port, nor programmers (so a wider pool).
If some witnesses are non users of a port, it may be seen as more independent.
Maintainer of mail/imaptools (Boris) is welcome to add me to a list of
witnesses:
Distfile:\
SIZE:\
MD5:\
URL:\
WITNESS:\
CONTACT:\
DATE
imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz:\
108952:\
a7c34141b7512bff69f6ea86952c83bb:\
http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/%5Bpage=123%5D
\
-> \
http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz\
Julian H. Stacey:\
http://berklix.com/~jhs/contact/:\
Tue Apr 10 14:30:17 CEST 2012
Cheers,
Julian
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