MS ODBC

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Jan 22 18:27:22 UTC 2018


On 2018-1-22 10:56 , Jann Röder wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to create a port for the Microsoft ODBC driver. There is
> already a homebrew package at
> https://github.com/Microsoft/homebrew-mssql-release/tree/master/Formula
> 
> Do we have any rules against ports that install binaries?

We try to avoid them, but sometimes there's no other choice. The bigger
issue in this case may be the license. We need to have permission to
redistribute the software, and making the user accept a EULA at install
time isn't OK.

- Josh


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