On Sunday 29 May 2005 17:52, Brian Bruns wrote: > On Sunday, May 29, 2005 4:58 PM [EST], Josh Paetzel wrote: > > The epic4 and epic5 ports on FreeBSD have an option to include in > > SOCKS5 support. The licensing for SOCKS5 does not allow binary > > download. One cannot automagically download the sources either. > > You have to fill out a web-based registration, download the > > tarball and then manually put it into the /usr/ports/distfiles on > > your FreeBSD machine. There are other ports that get treated > > similar to this situation. The problem is that I can no longer > > find a place to download the SOCKS5 sources from legitimately. > > > > My question is this: Do I need to move heaven and earth to get > > SOCKS5 working again, or can I simply remove the option from the > > port? > > Or an alternative would be to use another SOCKS5 library: > > http://antinat.sourceforge.net/ > > Such as antinat. Check FreshMeat, theres probably half a dozen > library implementations available. I think Dante might have > header/library support too.
What direction you want to go is up to you guys. I briefly looked at antimat and it's GPL'd as well as not requiring you to 'register' or whatever to download the sources. Antimat doesn't have a FreeBSD port so it would take a bit of doing to make it go. (which I am perfectly fine with) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
