On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:05:34PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:32:53PM +0200, Sigfred H?versen wrote:
> > For instance, security/clamav has run dependencies on unrar and unarj,
> > both that can not be included on the ftp site as a package for license
> > reasons. devel/eclipse is "another" example. I use both, so to actually use
> > those packages I need to use the ports tree.
> >
> > The advice to "always use packages" is very good, but is not always
> > appropriate.
> >
> > /Sigfred
>
> Get your priorities straight. The main thing you can do is lobby the author
> of these pieces of software to give you a better licence so that we are
> allowed to distribute packages.
Or, in the case of clamav, submit a patch to make it work without the
non-free parts; it's not like those are all that important, anyway (how
many .rars do you really need to decode?). And the original works just
fine without.
Making Eclipse work with non-Sun Java implementations might be somewhat
less trivial, though.
Joachim
P.S. CC: removed - I'm pretty sure everyone will read it here, and if
not, that's his own fault...
