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. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
