Mac OS X cross-compiler coming soon to a Fedora near you (or maybe not?)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:30:30PM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> On to everybody's favorite subject (ahum..), the legal stuff.
> First of all, I didn't do a thorough research yet about all the licenses
> involved. For GCC and odcctools I don't see any license
> incompatibilities which prevent it from inclusion in Fedora.
> 
> The Mac OS X SDK seems to be a mix a various licenses. I've seen files
> with the following licenses:
> - Apple Public Source License version 1.0
> - Apple Public Source License version 1.1
> - Apple Public Source License version 2.0
> - GPLv2+
> 
> According to [12] and [13] the APSL 1.0 and 1.1 licenses are a no-go for
> Fedora, so that may indicate the whole project isn't welcome in Fedora..
> We could try to extract all the APSL 2.0 and GPLv2+ pieces from the SDK,
> but I'm afraid it won't be enough to compile regular applications.
> 
> Another issue we have is that the SDK contains several libraries which
> are needed to compile regular applications. The source code for a number
> of these libraries isn't open source so that may also be another reason
> why the SDK isn't welcome in Fedora.

If licenses don't meet the Fedora requirements, there may still be the
option of pushing it to RPM Fusion Free or Non-Free repos.


Daniel
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