On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:29:16 +1000 Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote:
> On 2011-Apr-26 01:47:30 +0200, martinko <gam...@users.sf.net> wrote: > >So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? > > Whilst the Skype port still works, the version of Skype referenced by > the port is no longer available and later versions of Skype do not > (currently) work on FreeBSD. My reading of the Skype license suggests > that the FreeBSD Project cannot host the distfile without an agreement > with Skype. This means that someone who doesn't currently have the > Skype distfile cannot install the Skype port. True, and we've kept it like this for a long time. I have asked people at skype to allow us to redistribute the distfile, but that's impossible for legal reasons (not theirs). > I believe work is underway to support the currently available version > of Skype. It is, and it's kinda workoing on HEAD plus some patches. One thing all of oyu could do is bug skype on their forums to provide an OSS version; I recently argued about that with their linux product manager, so more voices would help. -- Ion-Mihai Tetcu <ite...@freebsd.org> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
