cloudflare/zlib on OS X

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jun 2, 2015, at 4:40 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you verify that with every bit of code that is available through MacPorts?

We make reasonable attempts to make sure that the legal business is kosher.


> I'm sorry, but you're making a way too big fuss out of this. The modified code is made available freely and publicly for others to use, and IMHO I can safely assume that this has been done with the knowledge and by extension silent consent of his employer (Vlad not being the only employee contributing to the repo from what I remember) AND the zlib whatever they call themselves.

Bad assumption.


> I'm not considering to ship a binary version of the code nor am I suggesting one should or could.

This doesn't really have to do with binaries. Source is copyrighted also.


> I'm not shipping the code verbatim. It might be possible to write the Portfile such that it grabs the equivalent patch directly from github but there isn't the slightest hint that one cannot redistribute the modifications (I have Vlad's consent in fact).

You are wrong. Copyright and restrictive redistribution terms are _assumed_ until explicitly waived by the copyright holder, who is probably CloudFlare Inc. and not your friend Vlad.


> Last of all, I'm not even proposing my variant for inclusion in MacPorts. It's up for grabs, I've informed others on here about it and the most likely outcome of the licensing question. If anyone wants to investigate this further in light of possible inclusion of the variant, that's fine - if not, too bad for the other MacPorts users.

You're correct here at least: This is a moot point because we're not going to ship this.


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