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[wip] Re: truecrypt: Drop - officially dead and dangerous license



Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> writes:

> Removed Files:
> 	[wip]/truecrypt/Makefile
>
> Log Message:
> truecrypt: Drop - officially dead and dangerous license

I don't really care about this in particular, but the real metric is
that the possible benefit to any wip user is far smaller than the
maintenance pain.  The maintenance pain of directory in wip is about
zero.

Part of the issue here is that things which are too crufty for real
pkgsrc are demoted to wip.  So applying a similar too crufty test to wip
is too aggressive.

As for license - I'm not sure what's particularly bad.  It seems not to
be a Free software license, and it has indemnification, but by that
logic most non-Free software is similarly dangerous.

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