mail/imaptools: port removal at Monday April 9th

[Jason Helfman]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 7 April 2012 19:58, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Boris Samorodov <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Beware (I've got an e-mail from the author):
> >>  1. This is (1.135) the last free version of imaptools.
> >>  2. The author's intention is to release a new version with a modest
> fee.
> >>  3. All users who already get a copy of the program
> >>     may use it without restrictions.
> >>  4. Further redistribution of already released versions will be
> forbidden.
> >>  5. The port should be removed from the portstree.
> >>  6. The dead line is Monday April 9th.
> >>
> > Looks like the author has pulled the sources from his site and
> > replaced it with an archive that only contains 1 file.  That file says
> > that the tools are no longer free.
>
> Well, whatever he says, he can't revoke the license of what's already
> been distributed.
>
>
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> Chris
>
>
Given this license, I don't see why it needs to be removed from the tree.
It can be distributed by the maintainer
via LOCAL MASTER_SITES, and it can still be maintained by contributions
from the community, in addition to
maintainer.

-jgh