www/subsonic-standalone license

Jeremie Le Hen jlh at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 21 10:16:23 UTC 2016


Hey Franco,

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Franco Fichtner <franco at lastsummer.de> wrote:
>
>> On 28 Oct 2016, at 6:30 PM, Joshua Ruehlig <joshruehlig at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't believe the maintainer dropped the project.
>
> I was talking about www/subsonic, sorry for the confusion:
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213298
>
>> If a user wants to use a previous version they are free to modify the PORTVERSION, update the 'distinfo', and build the port. Also the 'www/subsonic' port is still on version 5.3 so people can use that as well.
>
> That's impractical for users who use packages.  :)

If you have some time, you can send a patch that duplicate
www/subsonic into www/subsonic5 and make the required changes.  That
way everyone will have packages for 5.3 if they want it.

Cheers,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
jlh at FreeBSD.org


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