Post Feb 2013 binary versions of MongoDB missing from mirrors

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 20, 2014, at 19:39, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for doing that research. I’ve added the OpenSSL license exception to mongodb and it’s now distributable:

https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2014-April/035237.html