License question

Mark Brethen mark.brethen at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 18:10:13 PST 2012


I set them up as variants, with one default.

Can you cite an example of a sub-port?

Debian installs both in .../lib/${name}/cslbuild and .../lib/${name}/pslbuild

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-Mark

On Jan 1, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 30, 2011, at 07:59, Mark Brethen wrote:
> 
>> FOX is subject to LGPL and so in the CSL version of Reduce that includes FOX libraries (eg linked as part of Reduce) I need to take that into account, whereas the PSL version is BSD. What needs to go in the portfile?
> 
> How are you planning to offer the PSL and CSL versions of reduce?
> 
> If in separate ports, or in subports, then just indicate the different license in each port or subport.
> 
> If in variants, you can change the license in a variant, but that's probably not as obvious to the user, so consider using separate ports or probably better subports instead.
> 


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