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New port: wordcraft - vibe coded MS-Word copy
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Authored by se on Mon, Oct 12, 5:13 PM.
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Summary

"ArtCraft" has published under MIT or Apache-2 license (alternatively) a series of vibe coded programs that mirror existing commercial software from Microsoft and Adobe.

A FreeBSD binary is provided as: wordcraft-0.5.0-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz.

I'm not sure that providing a port is legal in the US or other relevant regions, therefore I want to get other committers opinions on whether we may add this port to FreeBSD (and whether we want to distribute binary packages built from this port).

If found acceptable, I'd want to add further programs provided by ArtCraft.

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Assess the legality of adding this port to FreeBSD and of distributing the resulting packages.

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se requested review of this revision.Mon, Oct 12, 5:13 PM
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I don't see why this would be less legal than any wordprocessor available (outside of ethic and politic), the fact that it is fully vibecoded questions the copyright or actually the lack of copyright that can be put on the sources, but the license is at leat to my knowledge not a problem.

If you are porting this natively, imho a good idea would be also to patch it to remove all the features that contact external server: telemetry, google analytics etc, I have not check for wordcraft specifically, but for other app they were from artcraft they were full of those.