buildbot failure in MacPorts on buildports-snowleopard-x86_64

Marko Käning MK-MacPorts at techno.ms
Mon Nov 21 09:14:44 PST 2011


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…)

I admit not being an expert when it comes to these legal matters. :-)


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