On Jan 2, 2013, at 13:42, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> BTW, there are other ports that have a mixture of licenses in them.  For 
>> example, the old Subversion 1.6.x distributed some utility scripts that are 
>> GPL, even though Subversion is Apache-2.  So what do we do in that case?  
> 
> In that specific case, I think we can put the GPL utility scripts in a 
> non-default variant (which is what we did, right?) as the buildbot won't 
> build it and won't dist it (I would guess that we should probably also update 
> the license in the variant in case macports attempts to build or distribute 
> variant builds in the future).
> 
>> What happens if separate parts of a port have incompatible licenses?
> 
> then we can't distribute binaries of it (we might be able to split it up and 
> distribute binaries of parts of it, but maybe we just have to let end-users 
> build it themselves instead).

When I encounter parts with different licenses, I try to separate them into 
different subports. See for example the recently added gle-graphics port and 
its QGLE subport.


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