Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:39:27 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: License compatibility issues? Message-ID: <CAD=7U2Di0ngE-PLO-Xf3TipWSZ4jXhR0ju-GhjDrAhD77SW5fw@mail.gmail.com>
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After a discussion on another list, I'm wondering if anyone has ever done anything to verify that the license requirements of the dependencies of a package (I don't know of any licenses that would cause problems for a port, as those don't involve distribution of derived works in the form of a binary) are actually met? For instance, a port licensed under the EPL that is statically linked with a GPL'ed library would produce a binary that couldn't be legally distributed. Searching google didn't turn much up, but I do notice that bsd.license.txt doesn't worry about the license requirements of dependencies. Since it is run at build time, this isn't a problem, as the license issues we deal with will turn up when the dependencies are built. But incompatible licenses don't seem to be dealt with at all. Maybe I just need better google search words?
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