What happened to milter-sender?

[Adam Weinberger]

Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Am Montag, 23. Mai 2005 23:25 schrieb Adam Weinberger:
> 
>>Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I was wondering why I can't find milter-sende in the ports tree, but
>>>google found commit messages, so it has been there once.
>>>(last activity I found was the UPDATING remark on 20040709, I cc'd to
>>>the author)
>>>
>>>Thanks for any hints,
>>>
>>>-Harry
>>>
>>>P.S.: Please CC to me, I'm not subscribed
>>
>>It's been gone for nearly half a year now. Looks like another stupid
>>licence-related issue. Also, vs was not the author; he's just the guy
>>who took care of removing the port.
>>
>># Adam
>>
>>
>>Revision 1.44, Thu Dec 2 10:00:26 2004 UTC (5 months, 2 weeks ago) by vs
>>Branch: MAIN
>>CVS Tags: HEAD
>>Changes since 1.43: +1 -1 lines
>>FILE REMOVED
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for that excerpt. Since the source code is still officially 
> available I could cvsup against my local mirror and salvage this great 
> port by setting the date as tag.
> The port had alread been marked RESTRICTED, and the source code ist still 
> available, so I don't have any idea why it had to be removed...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Harry
> 
> 
>>Remove mail/milter-sender on author's request. It might be resurrected
>>in the future when the software is commercially available again.

It had to be removed for the exact reason stated in the commit message: 
the author requested that it be. If you want to see the port return, see 
if you can talk the author into allowing it. I frankly think it's a 
shame when authors request that their software be pulled... it's usually 
requested for the most ridiculous of reasons.

# Adam


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