On 29 March 2012 20:11, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 29, 2012, at 14:04, Jan Stary wrote: > > What exactly is the > > relation of macports to Apple as a corporation? > > http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory
This is helpful but not very detailed. It doesn't clearly explain how much involvement, if any, Apple has had since this email was sent[1], in which is was written that, 'James Berry, a member of the DarwinPorts steering committee says: "We are pleased that by offering us hosting and administrative support services, Apple continues to demonstrate its strong commitment to the open source community. That support is vital to our project." If Apple is still providing hosting and administrative support services, perhaps they could intervene (legally/financially/technologically) to ensure that there is no disruption to the Macports project because of gkg.net's shameful intransigence. If so, who would be the right person to contact at Apple, to bring this to Apple's attention? Is there still a DarwinPorts/MacPorts steering committee? Does anyone here have time to look over http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/registrant-rights-responsibilities and/or related documents for any applicable clauses that might disallow registrars from acting as gkg.net has done? Might be worthwhile. Sam [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports/18725 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
