Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#37605 closed enhancement (fixed)

MacVim @7.3.snapshot66_1: License conflict preventing binary distribution

Reported by: larryv (Lawrence Velázquez) Owned by: raimue (Rainer Müller)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: MacVim

Description

MacVim currently requires openssl via python27 to build, which introduces the dreaded GPL/OpenSSL license conflict. Is it possible to mark python27 as license_noconflict (for the non-Python variants, anyway) so that we can build an archive?

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

Status: new → assigned

python27 is only a build dependency unless +python27 (or any other +pythonXY variant) is selected. Why does this prevent distribution in the first place as it is not required at runtime?

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

​Potential use of static libraries, it seems?

Last edited 12 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez) (previous) (diff)

comment:3 in reply to:  2 Changed 12 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Replying to larryv@…:

​Potential use of static libraries, it seems?

Among other things. As another example, some ports have depends_build port:boost because they only use its headers. Just because you don't link with a .a or .dylib doesn't mean you're not creating a derivative work.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Fixed in r101901. Thanks, raimue.

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