Subject: Re: Outdated ion3 pkgsrc in violation of the license
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/29/2007 01:14:34
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> The ion-3rc-20070902/LICENSE makes it not worth maintaining this software
> in pkgsrc.
It seems to me that pkgsrc could comply with the obnoxious licence
simply by adding both a LICENSE variable in the Makefile (pointing to a
copy of the license), and a MESSAGE file that says "This version may or
may not be the original author's latest stable release".
--apb (Alan Barrett)