Hi Pierre, thanks for bringing this up here: Mr. Valkonen's license is absolutely unbearable. As an alternative: Perhaps you can bring the port back to the last sane licensed version - don't know if this is useful and/or possible. Either that or remove it please. Regards, -Markus On Dec 13, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Pierre Queinnec wrote:
[sorry for cross-posting]
Hi all,
Here are two mails T. Valkonen sent respectively to FreeBSD Ports [1] and pkgsrc [2], warning them of a license violation on his software, ion3 (x11/ion3).
I'll be committing a removal of the port in 5 days if nobody wants to step up and take ownership from me. Then again, I'm not sure this serves the "community" best interest to keep it in the ports. Apologies to the ion3 users that will be forced to compile it themselves. I suggest you keep the Portfile in a private repository should you know how to do this, so you can still benefit from MacPorts build and upgrade cycles. -- Pierre
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-December/045475.html [2] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2007/10/28/0000.html
-- Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus W. Weissmann http://www.macports.org/ http://www.mweissmann.de/