On 08/02/14 at 11:41am, Ido Rosen wrote: > Do not do this. > > The noip client is GPL licensed F/OSS software (it's right there in > the COPYING file in the tarball). Just because it connects to a > commercial service does not mean it deserves to be removed from the > official package repository. Take, for example, various GMail > clients, Chromium (re:Google Sync and various google services), > various AWS/EC2/S3 clients/libraries in [extra]/[community], etc. > > Additionally, while I don't use noip, some users want choices. Would > you remove vim just because emacs exists? You should not remove it on > the grounds that there are alternatives. (Let's not make judgments on > which is better - you wouldn't want to start a vim vs emacs debate > here.) > > Ido > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Alexander Rødseth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > Some time ago I adopted the noip package. It's a GPL client that > > connects to what seems to be a commercial service offered by > > no-ip.com. The free service offered by them has a hostname that > > expires every 30 days. > > I am a bit surprised that this was an official package in the first > > place. When asking for opinions on IRC, there was support for moving > > the noip package to AUR. > > > > In addition to this, there seems to be several alternative clients, > > with slightly different versioning schemes. Both here: > > http://www.noip.com/download?page=linux and here: > > http://onevista.com/noip2.html. > > This confusion generated a low volume of out-of-date flags. > > > > It just smells bad. Moving it. > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Alexander Rødseth / xyproto
I don't see any reason to remove it, if it still works. but you already removed it to the AUR and it seems to be maintained by someone so I guess it will survive ;) -- Jelle van der Waa
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