rev-upgrade to determine if binary is distributable

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Jun 7 01:35:51 PDT 2012


On 2012-6-7 09:16 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> It's not so much that the tasks are related but rather that rev-upgrade is already testing all the links so it seems like an efficient place to test the license of files port. See below for what appears to be a case where no files are actually linked but the port still shows a license conflict.

Just because a port doesn't contain any binaries dynamically linked to a
library in a dependency doesn't mean it is not a derivative work of that
dependency.

- Josh


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