License GPL-2 conflicts with OpenSSLException
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Sat Apr 17 01:21:04 UTC 2021
On 2021-4-17 11:16 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.15_x86_64-builder/builds/55652/steps/gather-archives/logs/stdio
>
>> "hydrogen" is not distributable because its license "GPL-2" conflicts with license "OpenSSLException" of dependency "qt5-qtbase"
>
> Does this make sense or is there an error in the script? Why would GPL-2 or anything conflict with OpenSSLException? It's just an exception. It lifts some restrictions imposed by the GPL. It shouldn't be imposing additional restrictions itself, should it?
Implementation detail. OpenSSLException conflicts with everything except
the OpenSSL license. If you see that, it means that all the other
license options also conflicted (in this case, GPL-3 or LGPL-3).
- Josh
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