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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ports and Packages Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 04:18:46 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 8 Message-ID: <309A08A6.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <47c3mk$f8n@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: serges <serges@rocket.cc.umr.edu> In many cases the reasons are simply legal. We're not allowed to redistribute them, but the port versions are more "binary weapons", e.g. they require the missing piece to be fetched from somewhere other than us to be real ports, thus neatly side-stepping the issue. Good examples of this are kermit and rzsz. Don't complain to us, yell at the authors who place such punative restrictions on redistributing their software! -- Jordan