Re: What decides which port becomes a package?

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 08:29:19AM +0200, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>
> > On 10. Sep 2017, at 08:01, Josh Grosse <josh@jggimi.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:09:37AM +0200, Niels Kobsch??tzki wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I wanted to install tarsnap today but in the packages I could only find
> >> tarsnap-gui (and in the packages for 6.2-beta tarsnapper). The
> >> installation fails because they cannot find tarsnap.
> >
> > Licensing decides whether an application can be packaged for distribution.
> > The Ports build subsystem uses licensing variables to determine if packages
> > can be distributed.

The discussion back when sysutils/tarsnap was submitted might also be of
interest[1].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=130013322305918&w=2