> > Joachim, > > My humble opinion is that, this should be disallowed. If you want > tarsnap, get it and use it from his website. I can fully understand > Colin's reasoning, why, I will do it myself if I were in his place. > > But.... > > This is the road where the loosening of standards happens. Then this > leads to blobs and NVIDIA like onerous licenses as Henning pointed out > some months ago. (for those who don't know, basically NVIDIA says if > you use our card & binary driver in FreeBSD and do any commercial > activity, NVIDIA wants their cut if you have big pockets, they won't > bother if you are small potatoes). > > If as you point out commercial software is in ports, then it should be > removed immediately, no matter how many use it. Maple should be > removed if it forbids redistribution. There are alternatives out there > like R and Sage. They might be poor alternatives but they are freer > than Maple. > > I sincerely do not mean to sound rude in this message, just factual. > > Thanks, > amit
I don't think ports should necessarily disallow non-free software. In my mind ports makes it easier to get the software you like and want to use without having to go looking around the web. I like tarsnap and find it useful. To me this is software that we as OpenBSD users would like to have around due to its secure approach to backups. Don't like something in ports? Don't use it. -- Regards, Mark
