ktimetracker and akonadi's googlecontacts/googlecalendar

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 4, 2014, at 10:02 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> On Jun 04, 2014, at 14:53, Nicolas Pavillon wrote:
> 
>> Kdepim4-runtime will anyway be revbumped if the dependency is added, but on a side note, it should not provide built binaries due to license conflicts. 
> 
> Yeah, I notice that the google resources are LGPL3+ - Apple's allergy to that version begins to make me wonder if the project couldn't find a couple of "neutral" servers just to distribute those "tainted" ports (hint: there's already a network of mirrors ;))
> Alternatively, maybe you can do the same as with kioslaves, lump the tainted components together in a port that would allow the "clean" majority to be distributed in binary form?

Whether or not a binary of a port can be distributed by MacPorts has nothing to do with Apple's corporate decision not to use L?GPL-3+ software. Rather, whether a binary can be distributed depends on the combination of all licenses -- the port's, and its dependencies' -- based on our understanding of the licenses themselves. Note that Mac OS Forge, which is owned by Apple, happily hosts and distributes the distfiles for MacPorts ports, including L?GPL-3+ ports, and also binaries of those that allow it based on the combination of all used licenses.