Need a little assistance porting 'boggle' from NetBSD

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Dec 28 13:29:03 PST 2004


On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:13:43PM -0500, Jon Nathan wrote:

> > ISTR that a long time ago FreeBSD received a request to remove this
> > from /usr/ports/games by the owner of the Boggle trademark, which is
> > why you don't see it here any more.  We shouldn't add it back in ports
> > if so.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> That's a shame.  In any case, I received help off-list and fixed the
> problem.  I guess I'll keep the port to myself.  I wonder how NetBSD
> gets away with it.

It was probably just a random spree by a lawyer who had just
discovered search engines, but before the days of google :-)

We shouldn't tempt fate though.

Kris
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