On 2011-11-22 04:14 , Marko Käning wrote: > On Nov 19, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Joshua Root wrote: >> On 2011-11-19 19:23 , Marko Käning wrote: >>> How come that KDE3 ports are kept, but KDE4 ports are not kept there? Does >>> their license GPL-2 not permit that? >>> Same for aqbanking5 for instance: {GPL-2 OpenSSLException}… >> … >> In the case of aqbanking5, gmp is LGPL-3 which conflicts with GPL-2. >> - Josh > > Hmmm, I was wondering again about this issue: > > How come Linux distros can ship KDE4 as well as aqbanking in binary > format, but MacPorts can't? (Especially all the KDE4 stuff takes ages to > build…)
Maybe the license information in the portfile is wrong (e.g. it's actually GPL-2+), or they're shipping an older LGPL-2.x version of gmp, or it's possible to turn off the use of gmp and they are. Otherwise they're not permitted to distribute aqbanking. With KDE I think our main problem is that the GPL conflicts with the OpenSSL license. Some distros have reasoned that the system library exception in the GPL applies to them here, because they distribute OpenSSL with the OS. Others have taken to patching everything GPL'd to use GnuTLS or NSS instead of OpenSSL. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev