[MacPorts] #55214: afsctool @1.6.4_2 crashes when compressing on High Sierra 10.13.1

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Tue Nov 7 14:51:43 UTC 2017


#55214: afsctool @1.6.4_2 crashes when compressing on High Sierra 10.13.1
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  Reporter:  szhorvat  |      Owner:  raimue
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:  2.4.2
Resolution:            |   Keywords:
      Port:  afsctool  |
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Comment (by raimue):

 Seems like I made wrong assumptions where these files come from due the
 headers pointing to codeproject. I am sorry for not checking deeper, but
 the impression by that was that the file came from the linked project by a
 third-party author. Thank you for the clarification.

 Open source license are not easy, so let me still answer why I thought
 this would be a problem. In this case, it does not matter whether your
 software is commercial or not. The GPL does not allow to impose stricter
 terms than the GPL itself does. CPOL states that you cannot "use the Work
 for illegal, immoral or improper purposes" (another question would be who
 decides what that is?). This additional restriction is not in the GPL and
 thus, the licenses are incompatible. Due to the viral nature of the GPL,
 the resulting product could not be licensed as GPL-3. Of course you can do
 that for your own experiments as long as you keep it to yourself, but as
 soon as you distribute the results (source or binary), the GPL-3 has to be
 applied to the whole product.

 Other repositories with the same name exist on GitHub, but they are mostly
 just mirrors or forks that are explicitly mark unmaintained. I definitely
 also do not like the GPL-3 and it is sad that there is no BSD licensed
 alternative (or even a builtin tool in macOS to use this filesystem
 feature).

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