On 2017/05/24 12:26, Andrew Fresh wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:16:35PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> > > There is a license war going on between List::MoreUtils and List::Util.
> >
> > The easiest way would be to ignore the issue. Otherwise we would
> > be restricted to the old version forever. 32 other ports depend
> > on this module, there might be compatibility issues in the futuere.
> >
> > Any objections to commit the update?
> >
> > bluhm
> >
> > >
> > > https://github.com/perl5-utils/List-MoreUtils/commit/21c9eead8dc85b1ec133c2e7ba332ed0077183ae
> > > https://github.com/perl5-utils/List-MoreUtils/issues/24
> > >
> > > So List-MoreUtils 4.19 is now a strange mixture of Perl 5 (Artistic
> > > 1.0 or GPL 1) for old code and Apache 2.0 for new code.
>
> As far as I understand, both "perl5" and Apache 2 are compatible
> with being in the ports tree and being packaged normally.
>
> I don't think it matters which specific pieces of that code are under
> what license in the case of the ports tree.
I don't think it matters for ports.
Having read all the comments in the github issue, I do think upstream
is being a bit silly about this..
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