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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 2021 09:50:08 +0100
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To:        Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net>
Cc:        Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-ports@tharned.org>, "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@FreeBSD.org>, "ler@freebsd.org" <ler@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: www/joomla3 is no longer in the FreeBSD pkg repo
Message-ID:  <F812D137-F551-4519-9EB0-A483266EF6FC@punkt.de>
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Hi all,

> Am 04.03.2021 um 02:17 schrieb Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net>:
> The problem is, that although the php80 flavour does not depend on =
pecl-pdflib, the default flavour does,
> which means that the package will not be built as it you have to agree =
to pecl-pdflib's licence.

I am not a lawyer. That being said I have done some homework and did a =
lot if reading
in February 2020. Sent my findings to the port maintainer of =
print/pdflib, but did not get
a response, unfortunately.

My conclusion is that you don't need to agree to PDFlib GmbH's license, =
because all
of the legalese on their home page applies to a completely different =
product than the
one used by pecl-pdflib.

But step by step ...

1.	pecl-pdflib is published under the PHP license, so it is clearly =
open source.
2.	The FreeBSD port is not based on pdflib, but pdflib-lite - this =
is the crucial point.
3.	pdflib-lite is a product abandoned by PDFlib GmbH in 2011.
4.	pdflib-lite archives come with an open source license bundled in =
the archive.
5.	This is the only license applicable to our case. All the other =
licensing stuff on their
	website applies to pdflib - *which is a completely different =
product*.
6.	The license bundled with pdflib-lite explicitly permits the =
distribution of binaries as
	long as the license document and some other auxiliary files are =
included.
7.	The port does this and puts the necessary documents in =
/usr/local/share/doc/pdflib.

You won't find any information about pdflib-lite on PDFlib GmbH's =
website, because
they pulled it. Nonetheless the source is "out there", bundled with a =
permissive license
which cannot be taken back.

So the entire discussion is moot - as long as pecl-pdflib can be built =
with pdflib-lite.

The problem with the port/packages infrastructure is that this line in =
ports/print/pdflib/Makefile
is nonsense, IMHO:

	RESTRICTED=3D     Many odd restrictions on usage and =
distribution


Download the pdflib-lite tarball and see the documents for yourself. I =
am repeating myself:
all the legalese on the PDFlib GmbH website *does not apply* to this =
product (pdflib-lite).


Kind regards,
Patrick
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