ports/121670: [PATCH] Update converters/libiconv to 1.12

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/121670; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, delphij at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: ports/121670: [PATCH] Update converters/libiconv to 1.12
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:43:59 +0100
> 
>  Licensing framework is certainly something we will need. Currently we're
>  looking for volunteers to work on it, so...
>  
>  Then we will need to inspect every file in every of 18,000+ ports.
>  
>  IMHO we could update libiconv now and deal with licensing issues as they
>  are discovered, but I am not a lawyer.

I'm okay with that.  This would not be the first GPLv3 port in the tree 
(see GCC 4.3).  If someone complains that their binary links to a GPLv3 
library, we can evaluate how to proceed with that.  I am reminded of 
Gaim linking to OpenSSL.  The Gaim people complained, and we removed the 
code.  No bad blood.

Joe

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