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From:
Ian Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com>
Subject:
Re: package licensing issue
To:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Cc:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:12:09 -0500

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:02:22PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>    personally I don't think we should have private agreements like that,
>    if it's not open for anyone to package I'd prefer to not allow
>    distributing packages. I have no problem having that in ports with
>    PERMIT_* disabled though.

I'm pretty sure he'd make the same offer to any other OS; I don't think he meant
it as a special favor to me. He hasn't put it in the website but says he will
eventually. Anyway it's just a binary that you can download from maven central.
It will prompt for a license if needed.