Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Virex ships/overwrites fink libraries

[Kyle Moffett]

Essentially, this appears to be a quick-fix for the lack of an auto-update
feature in Virex. The engineers used several existing pieces of
open-source software to make their job easier, but they forgot/didn't
know how/whatever to move the libraries to /Library/Application Support.

There are two major problems with this:
1) Licensing violations.
2) Fink installation damage.

For the licensing issues, it appears that they violate the licenses for the
OpenSSL software (libcrypto.0.9.6.dylib and libssl.0.9.6.dylib), for CURL
(libcurl.2.0.2.dylib and libcurl.2.dylib), and for Dlcompat (libdl.0.dylib).
In addition, they used Fink packaged software without telling the Fink
Developers about it or placing a notice in the software!

As for the installation damage, it is obvious what would happen were
Virex to overwrite certain libraries with older/newer versions.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCM/CS/IT/U d- s++:- a16 C++++>$ UB/L/X/*++++(+)>$ P+++(++++)>$
L+++(++) E W++(+) N+++(++) o? K? w---(-) O? M++ V? PS+() PE+(-) Y+
PGP? t+(+++) 5 X R? tv-(--) b++++(++) DI+ D+ G e->++++$ h! !r-- !y?
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