Post Feb 2013 binary versions of MongoDB missing from mirrors

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

Hi Clemens,

I did a bit of research and looks like this issue has been discussed before:

* https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-8886
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mongodb/+bug/1175028

In response to that, the MongoDB license has been explicitly modified to
allow linking with OpenSSL:
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/8d5e83075ed1ffc989b4e04ec981fc5355f0f9e7

Here's the relevant part that can be seen in some of their source files:

As a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to link the
> code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library under certain
> conditions as described in each individual source file and distribute
> linked combinations including the program with the OpenSSL library. You
> must comply with the GNU Affero General Public License in all respects
> for all of the code used other than as permitted herein. If you modify
> file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your
> version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not
> wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. If you
> delete this exception statement from all source files in the program,
> then also delete it in the license file.


Best regards,
Behrang
http://www.behrang.org


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > I was upgrading my ports and noticed that MacPorts has failed to download
> > binaries for MongoDB 2.6.0:
> > [...]
> > And the latest version of MongoDB they had was 2.2.3_0 and dated 2 Feb
> 2013.
> >
> > This seemed a bit odd to me. Any ideas why these mirrors have stopped
> > mirroring at that version and that date?
>
> [1] has the answer for that: "mongodb" is not distributable because its
> license
> "agpl" conflicts with license "OpenSSL" of dependency "openssl"
>
>
> [1]
> https://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-mtln-x86_64/builds/13559/steps/gather%20archives/logs/stdio
> --
> Clemens Lang
>
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