[Bug 193629] New: sysutils/exfat-utils is marked as restricted without maintainer approval

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            Bug ID: 193629
           Summary: sysutils/exfat-utils is marked as restricted without
                    maintainer approval
           Product: Ports Tree
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: Needs Triage
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: samm at os2.kiev.ua

I have found that in r328060 someone restricted distribution of the package
without maintainer update. As maintainer and package porter i am strictly
against this.

I am against disabling package build of the exfat. I am very tired to return to
this discussion 100th time (yeah) and i personally think that someone have
nothing to do. Few points from the past discussions on the net:

a) other systems, including well-known like Debian, OpenSUSE and Gentoo are
distributing binary packages and i never heard about any problems with it.
b) I never heard any copyright problems or requests from MS to remove this
binary packages. I don't see any points to be "proactive" and do anything
before getting any requests from the patent holder. Because using this logic we
should remove libav, FAT32 kernel implementation and tonn of other staff
potentially hurts some other patents. 
c) there are at least few other, non-fuse, implementation publicly available. I
also never heard about requests to remove them.

>From what i see now that someone disabled distribution of the package w/o
maintainer aprrover. Why do we need maintainers them? Please revert it back or
remove me from the port maintainers, thank you.

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