[MacPorts] #66653: request: please switch to friendly fork of 'libpaper'

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#66653: request: please switch to friendly fork of 'libpaper'
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 Reporter:  lemzwerg  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
Component:  ports     |    Version:
 Keywords:            |       Port:
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 IMHO, a big problem of the Debian 'libpaper' library is that it is GPL-2
 only.  This currently makes more than 20 ports non-distributable; some of
 them are quite important like 'gimp', 'ghostscript', or 'ImageMagick'.
 The complete list is below.

 However, there exists a 'friendly fork' at
 https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper that comes with both a GPL-2 and
 GPL-3 license.  I thus suggest to switch to this port.

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 Here are the relevant results from `not-distributable.txt` as produced by
 Joshua Root's `all_distributable.tcl` script
 (https://gist.github.com/jmroot/f84c329919356bfb1ed2d8425f3cfebb),
 executed on my macOS 10.7.5 machine.

 {{{
 ImageMagick
 chafa
 dvisvgm
 dvisvgm-devel
 ghostscript
 gimp-resynthesizer
 gimp2
 gimp2-devel
 gimp3-devel
 gri
 groff
 gscan2pdf
 htcondor
 lilypond
 lilypond-devel
 magicspp
 metview
 p5-perlmagick
 p5.28-perlmagick
 p5.30-perlmagick
 p5.32-perlmagick
 p5.34-perlmagick
 pyxplot
 t-rec
 }}}

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