Have you thought of the legal ramifications to FreeBSD?
Ports tree is not all open source. There are paid applications as well.
Now if you host a companies application download on your infrastructure is that legal?
Your may not be authorized to distribute said program.
I can see why we use the current method. The end user downloads said application.
Not saved on our infrastructure.
To pre-empt your next question: If thats true then how could we have packages but not host the distfiles?
I dunno. I still think it provides a layer of legal insulation by not hosting the distfiles.
net/citrix_ica as an example of one that's not possible:
May not be redistributed due to licensing. Please visit https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/linux/ accept their license and download linuxx86-13.10.0.20.tar.gz into /usr/ports/distfiles
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