Troubles installing ports with Macports 2.3.1

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 14:30:04 PDT 2014


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:16 PM, "René J.V. Bertin" <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Jul 06, 2014, at 21:31, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
> > public forums), but given that Debian distributes git and they're
> usually pretty good at being a stickler for license terms, I would expect
> the exemption exists and we just have to confirm it and add it to the
> Portfile.
>
> I suppose Canonical wouldn't really be distributing illegal packages?


I do not always understand the reasoning Canonical applies. But they use
Debian as their upstream, so in this case that's where the policy comes
from.

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