multimedia/linux-realplayer port marked as BROKEN

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:01:56 +0100
> Chris Rees wrote:
>
>> On 29 June 2012 17:58, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:17:40 +0100
>> > Chris Rees wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Jun 29, 2012 4:13 PM, "Jerry" <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > The "multimedia/linux-realplayer" port has been marked
>> >> > "BROKEN=unfetchable" for awhile now. Has there been any movement
>> >> > on a resolution for this problem.
>> >>
>> >> Unless a legal mirror is found, I'm afraid we can't provide it;
>> >> mirroring is forbidden.
>> >
>> > The Makefile could print out instructions for obtaining the
>> > restricted file and set IGNORE if it isn't present. I think that's
>> > what the JDK ports used to do.
>>
>> No, there's a difference.  We can't instruct a user to obtain a
>> distfile in a way that is explicitly forbidden by the licence.
>
> What's explicitly forbidden?  The distribution licence forbids hosting
> the files, but there's nothing that says you can't tell people that
> realplayer can be obtained from real.com and offer an alternative
> installer to rpm - which is all the port would be.

Sounds about the same as the jdk ports where you had to get the
distros from Sun (and now Oracle) after agreeing to their terms. the
port checked for the disto and, if it was not found, provided
instructions to legally obtain it. We don't do ports for warez, but I
can't see that telling peoplewhereto get it legally is any issue.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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