Re: conditionally "dependent", by license?

["Pouya D. Tafti" <pdtafti%users.sourceforge.net@localhost>]

On 9 March 2011 17:03, Larson, Timothy E. <TELarson%west.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Having options flipped based on licenses would lead to non-repeatable
>> builds.  Now, the build comes out a certain way, or packages fail to
>> build.  I think this kind of reproducible result (subset) is a feature.
>
> This is the major point that came to my mind as well, but I thought perhaps I 
> was missing something.
>
>> So far, the only cases that have come up where it's been difficult is
>> mplayer, which has non-free plugins and might or might not be free
>> itself, and (in the past) graphviz.
>>
>> It would help to discuss an actual case, rather than theoretical ones,
>> because the appropriate solution may be entirely different.
>
> The actual case is wip/classic-mac-font-pack which I've been working on for a 
> little while now. It's a collection of fonts from disparate sources. (Thus 
> far I'd been working on the technical aspects, not license concerns.) 
> Recently I found urbanrenewal-ttf, which is a natural fit here, and since it 
> is already a set on its own I packaged it. Now the thought of how to get the 
> various licenses to "play nice" has come to the forefront.
>
> I was hoping to avoid, if at all possible, having to package each font 
> separately. But due to license issues, I am not seeing any way around it. 
> CMFP will have to be a meta-package.

It seems to me that a natural solution would be to define
"meta"-licences in pkgsrc.

Pouya

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