Openssl: built-in or ports?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Apr 2 10:26:54 PDT 2009


On 2009-04-02 19:17, David Evans wrote:
> For some ports, licensing is dependent on variant selected.  For 
> instance, ffmpeg
> is GPL by default but is LGPL if the +no_gpl variant is specified 
> causing GPL modules to be disabled.

Good catch.

> This would work in these cases if it is acceptable to declare licenses 
> in a variant definition clause.

Should be no problem to use licenses-delete and licenses-append in
variants. But my proposed NoMirror or mirror.restricted would always be
for all distfiles, as I don't think we need to make it more specific.

Rainer


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