-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/1/10 7:07 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > libnessus3-ssl is marked as Restrictive (links to OpenSSL) and the > source is now unavailable upstream (license change for newer versions > and dead FTP server). fink fetch libnessus3-ssl then fails to build, > only checking Source: defined in the .info file. > > However, the tarball _is_ available from > <http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/>, probably because of > libnessus3 (non-ssl). This brings up some questions: > > 1) Should packages marked as Restrictive be able to check mirrors if > they can't find the source upstream? >
If the sources are legally redistributable and therefore mirror-able, that sounds reasonable. > 2) Should a new license option be used for packages marked as > restrictive because of OpenSSL linkage (or other similar situation)? > Fink policy says "will not distribute binaries", but in practice this > also means that the source tarball is not distributed/mirrored. Most > packages that fall into this category are GPL, so the source alone can > be distributed. Having a new License option, Restrictive/SourceOnly for > example, to complement Restrictive/Distributable would take care of > these packages. > > Hanspeter > Sounds reasonable to me. Code it up. ;-) I believe that the Restrictive license explicitly makes fink only look in the original source URL(s), so I think we'd need some new scripting even to do option 1), so it'd probably be worth looking at both. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvcKPsACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9pzQCcDyELEl5V6NzrUHdCAZ/ov4JM N2sAninkB80MCa4GcAxwfWZ1SXrdRQcr =idMq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
