On 04/03/2021 16:16, Chris wrote:
On 2021-03-04 00:50, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
Hi all,
Am 04.03.2021 um 02:17 schrieb Chris Rees <cr...@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= 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).
I needed the pdflib-lite for a script I cobbled up to batch convert
to/from text/pdf
a couple of years ago. I can confirm that the lib is with a
*non*restrictive license.
My humble suggestion;
Can't we please simply create a pdflib-lite port, and be done with all
this and related? :-)
The pdflib that we have in the port *is* pdflib-lite :) Hence my
proposed review to ale@.
Chris
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