Not to mention, the main mistake of mine is to have accepted to install a package to make stuff like traceroute (already included in the base) does.
-- Daniele Bonini Feb 28, 2023 09:16:25 Daniele B. <[email protected]>: > Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Really simple actually, www.openbsd.org/goals.html , point #2 >> >> * "Integrate good code from any source with acceptable licenses... the GPL >> is not acceptable >> when adding new code" >> and the mtr ports Makefile: >> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/mtr/Makefile?annotate=1.75 >> line 10 or so, >> # GPLv2+ >> >> So this is why it would not be considered, even if someone wanted it in base. >> >> It is not a goal in itself to move stuff from ports to base. > > Thanks for the extended explanation too. > > This remind me two important stuff. The first is to not trust 100% software > just because is > the ports/packages and this should be enough worrisome. Second do not accept > 3rd party > requests to install packages that could compromise your system although > source of requests > appears "100%" clean. > > > > > -- Daniele Bonini > > Feb 28, 2023 08:24:19 Janne Johansson <[email protected]>: > >> Den mån 27 feb. 2023 kl 16:22 skrev Daniele B. <[email protected]>: >>> Janne Johansson <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> It has been in ports/packages since 1999, it will stay there. >>> >>> Ok, thanks for the update. >> >> Really simple actually, www.openbsd.org/goals.html , point #2 >> >> * "Integrate good code from any source with acceptable licenses. ISC >> or Berkeley style licences are preferred, the GPL is not acceptable >> when adding new code" >> (where "any source" doesn't mean "take any random program you find" >> but rather "do not place external values on the source of a program we >> decided we want to integrate") >> >> and the mtr ports Makefile: >> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/mtr/Makefile?annotate=1.75 >> line 10 or so, >> # GPLv2+ >> >> So this is why it would not be considered, even if someone wanted it in base. >> >> It is not a goal in itself to move stuff from ports to base. >> >> -- >> May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
