ports/112838: x11-wm/ion-3ds: bump, make fetchable, rename, remove old cruft
Philip Paeps
philip at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 5 11:32:27 UTC 2007
On 2007-06-05 12:05:34 (+0200), Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl> wrote:
> * Philip Paeps <philip at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > On 2007-06-04 15:38:14 (+0200), Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl> wrote:
> > > As I've read online the license of Ion3 has turned sour. The author has
> > > ammended the license to the source with new clauses which enforces rules
> > > which the FreeBSD package model can't guarantee, including a rule that
> > > forces all packages to be beyond a version of a certain age.
> >
> > [...]
> > Since the ports tree is not tagged, this is not really a problem for us.
> > When people ask for "ion" from the ports (ion-3, actually), they'll get
> > the latest version -- provided the maintainer is somewhat alive, which
> > I'll do my best to be -- which is precisely what the licence wants.
>
> I guess that problem still persists if someone on a FreeBSD 5.x box runs
> `pkg_add -r ion-3ds', because then the user gets the outdated package. But
> IANAL ;-)
True. I had forgotten about the binary packages case. I guess we'll need to
set NO_PACKAGE for this. But I'll check this with Tuomo first on IRC.
Cheers,
- Philip
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