Troubles installing ports with Macports 2.3.1

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Sun Jul 6 14:32:56 PDT 2014


Hi,

On July 6, 2014 9:21:47 PM CEST, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>Otherwise, a binary of git cannot be distributed
>(not by us, not by anyone).

That's not correct. Remember the GPL has an exception for linking against a system's libraries. AFAIK, Linux distributions build git binaries on the grounds that their copy of openssl is system-provided. In that sense, we could distribute a copy of git that uses Apple's OpenSSL, but not one that uses MacPorts OpenSSL.

The issue is well-covered, though - just google for openssl gpl.

Remember IANAL and this isn't legal advice.
-- 
Clemens Lang


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