Mojca, thanks for looking up the details. On 20 Aug 2014, at 11:31, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:21 AM, petr wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> yesterday I had a look at some ports which require manual download >> (py-nio/py-ngl). > > Is this a technical issue or a licence limitation? It's not yet clear > to me why the licence wouldn't allow fetching the code automatically, > but I didn't try to read it carefully. I have found the port with this manual download, and admit I not looked into details of the license yet. I just assumed the manual download is there for some good reason. > I get a weird link, for example: > > https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/download/fileDownload.htm?logicalFileId=c59d162c-b960-11e0-a567-00c0f03d5b7c > but then that link works properly with wget or in the browser. > A guess would be that the provider wants to impose that some note or disclaimer is accepted first. So I am not sure, if circumventing this barrier is actually compliant with the license. But maybe we can find an alternative solution, will check the details here. Still, I guess this does not directly address my question, but suggest and alternative solution … ~petr _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
