[MacPorts] #65191: ghostscript: is not distributable

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#65191: ghostscript: is not distributable
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  Reporter:  swilton86    |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect       |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:  2.7.2
Resolution:  wontfix      |   Keywords:
      Port:  ghostscript  |
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Comment (by chrstphrchvz):

 Many Linux and BSD package managers offer binaries of ghostscript AGPL
 linked to libpaper. I think it would be useful to elaborate why MacPorts
 cannot also do so. My guess is that it resembles the OpenSSL pre-3.0
 situation where a library has to be considered “part of the OS” (which
 MacPorts is not) for binary distribution of packages with incompatible
 licenses to be allowed.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65191#comment:4>
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