[MacPorts] #55764: geoexpress-sdk @9.0.0.3864: upgrade to 9.5.4.4709

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri May 25 14:47:35 UTC 2018


On May 25, 2018, at 08:54, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2018-05-24 20:56, Vincent Habchi wrote:
>>> I don’t understand the licensing requirements, but I find this to be a convenient port for getting Mr. Sid support with the MacPorts gdal. I find it useful and hope that it can remain as long as it is appropriate.
>> 
>> In any case, the support wouldn’t be removed. But, like I did with ECW API, MacPort’s official policy might force me to delete the port. You would then have to install the SDK manually in a predetermined place – thereby accepting the license – and the GDAL port variant would link against it.
> 
> What is the problem with the license? Is user agreement a strict
> requirement before the software can even be downloaded?
> 
> We already have ports with other restrictive licenses in the tree, even
> closed-source software. Set the license option accordingly and make sure
> we are allowed to mirror and redistribute files (otherwise also add the
> "NoMirror" license).

It already does set license Restrictive NoMirror.

> 
> One possible way to handle download restrictions could be a pre-fetch {}
> phase that checks for the existence of the distfile and prints an
> explanation how to obtain it if it does not exist yet.

It already does that too.




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