ports/91368 xephem patch
Josh Paetzel
josh at tcbug.org
Fri Jan 6 07:40:07 UTC 2006
The following reply was made to PR ports/91368; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org,
frank at dynamical-systems.org,
edwin at freebsd.org
Cc:
Subject: ports/91368 xephem patch
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:32:41 -0600
I have passed this patch on to the xephem developers and they said
they will consider it. In the meantime they do not want us to patch
the FreeBSD port.
<quote>
However, regardless of the validity of this patch, I ask that you not
include it in the freebsd ports version of
XEphem. Our policies prohibit redistribution of modified versions of
XEphem other than non-functional changes required
for proper operation on a given platform, which this is clearly
beyond. This policy avoids confusion amongst users
regarding exactly what it is they are running when they run "XEphem",
and avoids proliferation of forked sources. Now
and in the future, please always just use the current free version of
XEphem source code as posted on our web site
when building for the freebsd port collection.
</quote>
--
Thanks,
Josh Paetzel
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