On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 15:18:42 -0500, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <f...@snaggledworks.com> wrote: Currently (since 2005), (L)GPL packages that link to Fink's OpenSSL must > be marked as Restrictive because we can't distribute binaries. A note > is usually left in DescPackaging to keep track of the original > license. > > With system-openssl dying with 10.11, there's going to be a large > increase in packages that suddenly have to become Restrictive and the > mass updates will probably cause information to be lost. > > Would it make sense to add a new license type such as GPL/OpenSSL? > This would note the main license, the fact that it links to OpenSSL, > and would thus be marked 'restrictive' by the bindist and no binaries > would be generated for that package. > > (any GPL packages that have an explicit OpenSSL exception would still > be labelled GPL as before)
Sounds like a good solution. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core
