Ion3 license violation

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Dec 12 12:45:14 PST 2007


In response to Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov at iki.fi>:

> On 2007-12-12, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> > It's impossible for the FreeBSD ports system to guarantee compliance with
> > his arbitrarily chosen "28 days" rule.  
> 
> There is no "28 days" rule. There is a "latest release in 28 days or
> prominently mark (potentially) obsolete" rule. You can make the marking
> permanent, always requiring users to acknowledge a message. You can 
> make the marking automatic, by checking the website for a new release
> (as Debian presently does), or by some more sophisticated means or dead
> man triggers.

There you go.  I had no idea it would be this easy.

Please open a PR and attach a patch.

-- 
Bill Moran
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