Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo

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The FreeBSD project froze its ports repository on Wednesday. The reason turns out to be a slightly embarrassing Git-related oopsie where a version of Copilot got uploaded somewhere it should not have been.

The announcement of the 2026 Ports Repository Freeze went out on July 21 and remained in effect the following day, as explained in a message on the freebsd-announce mailing list. The mail delicately skirted around exactly what happened:

« The commit in question severed our ports tree mirroring to github.com due to their filesize hard limit of 100MB, and introduced a blob of questionable licensing into the repository history. »

The offending commit is this one.

It’s not a disaster; the problem is that the Ports repository is automatically mirrored to various places, including a read-only Github mirror– and as...

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