Re: pkgsrc-wip: misc/DeepSeek-TUI renamed to misc/CodeWhale; editors/fresh 0.3.12

Alistair Crooks <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:16:19 +0100

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Sorry, this just arrived out of order

On Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 17:30 Benny Siegert <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Sun, 7 Jun 2026, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> >  Is it that pkgsrc is basically either not worthy of copyright or taken
> >  from upstream, so there is no issue?
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> I disagree that Makefiles are merely metadata and below the threshold of
> copyright. Getting the Makefile for a package right is not trivial! They
> often contain some amount of code to move stuff around, setting build
> variables etc. As such, I consider them code.
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> --
> Benny


Yes, you are right about Makefiles, on reflection I agree they should be
treated as code

Thanks for keeping me honest :),
Al

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