ffmpeg, ffmpeg-devel: not distributable on Snow Leopard

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

ffmpeg and ffmpeg-devel are not distributable on 10.6, but they are on all later MacOS releases. Any idea how we could fix them to be distributable on Snow Leopard and Lion too?

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Also see comments in duplicate ticket issue:62851.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

FYI, I built MacPorts with @Danchr's excellent work related to issue:60315, and here's our answer:

$ port licensecheck ffmpeg
--->  Checking license for ffmpeg
Warning: "ffmpeg" is not distributable because its license "GPL" conflicts with license "OpenSSL": librsvg -> glib2 -> python27 -> openssl
Warning: "ffmpeg" is not distributable because its license "GPL" conflicts with license "SSLeay": librsvg -> glib2 -> python27 -> openssl

After the addition of license_noconflict openssl:

$ port licensecheck ffmpeg
--->  Checking license for ffmpeg
"ffmpeg" is distributable

So my first thought is, we REALLY need to add Dan's licensecheck functionality to base. IMHO, I think we should strongly consider adding it to the pending release (albeit with the change to move license data under _resources), as the risk is minimal.

As for ffmpeg, given the dependency chain, is the openssl license a problem in this case?

[kencu (Ken)]

the ffmpeg license is supposed to be LGPL-2+, which is distributable, unless you specifically enable the gpl2 variant, and then it is non-distributable due to the openssl mess (which disappears this year with openssl 3.0, we all hope).

Did that get messed up?

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Ken, this is only happening for the MacOS 10.6 case, which is curious. And +gpl2 has been the default for a long time, without an issue for later MacOS releases.