www/joomla3 is no longer in the FreeBSD pkg repo

[Chris Rees]

Hi Patrick,

On 04/03/2021 08:50, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> Am 04.03.2021 um 02:17 schrieb Chris Rees <crees at 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'm afraid that this, which I found in pdflib-lite's readme.txt [1] 
differs on that opinion.

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- PDFlib Lite
   Open-source edition for basic PDF generation, free for personal use.
   PDFlib Lite does not support all languages, and is not available on
   EBCDIC platforms.
----

"Free for personal use" is not Free, and that's why the licence must be 
acknowledged.

Unless you have found explicit mention that it is definitely under the 
PHP licence?

Chris

[1] https://github.com/Distrotech/PDFlib-Lite