Some guy has put together an application bundle of Gimp (Gimp.app) based on the Fink packages. Basically, he wrote a shell script, used Platypus to create an application wrapper, then bundled in the Gimp binaries and all dependencies. I'm trying to do the same thing with Scribus 1.1.6--I modified his script a little bit, and copied over all the Scribus dependencies into the app bundle.[]
Does anyone have any advice?
Here is another advice: If you don't just make this for yourself, but want to distribute it, read the GPL carefully. I just had a look at the gimp-app sourceforge project, which is probably what you meant above. IANAL, but to me it looks like this guy is in flagrant violation of the GPL. In order to comply, he would be forced to distribute not only the sources of all of the included libraries, but also all the corresponding Fink info and patch files and probably the sources of the whole basic Fink system that is used to compile the binaries he is distributing. Vague links to URLs that contain similar sources are not enough. You have to distribute sources that allow everyone else to compile exactly the same thing that you are distributing. The fact that something is free software doesn't automatically mean you can distribute binaries made from it as you like.
-- Martin
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