spread-sheet-widget not redistributable

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Sep 14 04:57:57 UTC 2020



On Sep 11, 2020, at 14:49, Christopher Chavez wrote:

> Continuing the recent topic of (L)GPL port openssl dependency
> nonredistributability:
> 
> I notice the spread-sheet-widget port claims to be affected by this.
> It is not a large port, but it only has coreutils and pkgconfig as build
> dependencies, and gtk3 as a library dependency, and all direct dependencies
> are (L)GPL licensed and have binaries available. Why isn't
> spread-sheet-widget considered redistributable as well? Is gtk3 or one of
> its dependencies erroneously considered redistributable?

Using the modifications to port_binary_distributable given here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-infrastructure/pull/14


$ ./port_binary_distributable.tcl -v spread-sheet-widget
"spread-sheet-widget" is not distributable because its license "GPL" conflicts with license "OpenSSL": gtk3 -> atk -> gobject-introspection -> py38-markdown -> python38 -> openssl
"spread-sheet-widget" is not distributable because its license "GPL" conflicts with license "SSLeay": gtk3 -> atk -> gobject-introspection -> py38-markdown -> python38 -> openssl




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