On Jun 4, 2014, at 10:02 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Jun 04, 2014, at 14:53, Nicolas Pavillon wrote: > >> Kdepim4-runtime will anyway be revbumped if the dependency is added, but on >> a side note, it should not provide built binaries due to license conflicts. > > Yeah, I notice that the google resources are LGPL3+ - Apple's allergy to that > version begins to make me wonder if the project couldn't find a couple of > "neutral" servers just to distribute those "tainted" ports (hint: there's > already a network of mirrors ;)) > Alternatively, maybe you can do the same as with kioslaves, lump the tainted > components together in a port that would allow the "clean" majority to be > distributed in binary form?
Whether or not a binary of a port can be distributed by MacPorts has nothing to do with Apple's corporate decision not to use L?GPL-3+ software. Rather, whether a binary can be distributed depends on the combination of all licenses -- the port's, and its dependencies' -- based on our understanding of the licenses themselves. Note that Mac OS Forge, which is owned by Apple, happily hosts and distributes the distfiles for MacPorts ports, including L?GPL-3+ ports, and also binaries of those that allow it based on the combination of all used licenses. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
