Re: OpenBSD ports maintainership

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:18:03PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> That's why I have made the following decision:
>
> - All names of MAINTAINERs, unless explicitly stated until end of this month,
> timezone UTC, will be removed from the Makefiles.
> - The mentioning of OpenBSD in the documentation will be removed.
>
> The first of these points is, IMHO, a breach of the BSD licence which has been
> referred to farther above, that's why I am announcing this on the mailing list
> and asking people prior to that.

A breach of the BSD license? I was under the impression that the ports framework is in the public domain. At least, I don't see a BSD license for it anywhere.

And even if it were under the BSD license, I fail to see how it applies to a MAINTAINER variable (not even clause 3).

And as Marc points out, I'm not the maintainer of any of your "MirBSD ports", I'll simply ignore any problems from people who mail me from using your system. Removing my name is just common courtesy.

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Anil Madhavapeddy                                   
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