On May 25, 2018, at 08:54, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2018-05-24 20:56, Vincent Habchi wrote:
>>> I don’t understand the licensing requirements, but I find this to be a
>>> convenient port for getting Mr. Sid support with the MacPorts gdal. I find
>>> it useful and hope that it can remain as long as it is appropriate.
>>
>> In any case, the support wouldn’t be removed. But, like I did with ECW API,
>> MacPort’s official policy might force me to delete the port. You would then
>> have to install the SDK manually in a predetermined place – thereby
>> accepting the license – and the GDAL port variant would link against it.
>
> What is the problem with the license? Is user agreement a strict
> requirement before the software can even be downloaded?
>
> We already have ports with other restrictive licenses in the tree, even
> closed-source software. Set the license option accordingly and make sure
> we are allowed to mirror and redistribute files (otherwise also add the
> "NoMirror" license).
It already does set license Restrictive NoMirror.
>
> One possible way to handle download restrictions could be a pre-fetch {}
> phase that checks for the existence of the distfile and prints an
> explanation how to obtain it if it does not exist yet.
It already does that too.
