<div dir="ltr">Hi Clemens,<div><br></div><div>I did a bit of research and looks like this issue has been discussed before:</div><div><br></div><div>* <a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-8886">https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-8886</a></div>
<div>* <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mongodb/+bug/1175028">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mongodb/+bug/1175028</a></div><div><br></div><div>In response to that, the MongoDB license has been explicitly modified to allow linking with OpenSSL: <a href="https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/8d5e83075ed1ffc989b4e04ec981fc5355f0f9e7">https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/8d5e83075ed1ffc989b4e04ec981fc5355f0f9e7</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's the relevant part that can be seen in some of their source files:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
As a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to link the<br>code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library under certain<br>conditions as described in each individual source file and distribute<br>
linked combinations including the program with the OpenSSL library. You<br>must comply with the GNU Affero General Public License in all respects<br>for all of the code used other than as permitted herein. If you modify<br>
file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your<br>version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not<br>wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. If you<br>
delete this exception statement from all source files in the program,<br>then also delete it in the license file.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best regards,<br><div><div dir="ltr">Behrang<br><div>
<a href="http://www.behrang.org" target="_blank">http://www.behrang.org</a></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Clemens Lang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cal@macports.org" target="_blank">cal@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">Hi,<br>
<br>
> I was upgrading my ports and noticed that MacPorts has failed to download<br>
> binaries for MongoDB 2.6.0:<br>
</div>> […]<br>
<div class="">> And the latest version of MongoDB they had was 2.2.3_0 and dated 2 Feb 2013.<br>
><br>
> This seemed a bit odd to me. Any ideas why these mirrors have stopped<br>
> mirroring at that version and that date?<br>
<br>
</div>[1] has the answer for that: "mongodb" is not distributable because its license<br>
"agpl" conflicts with license "OpenSSL" of dependency "openssl"<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-mtln-x86_64/builds/13559/steps/gather%20archives/logs/stdio" target="_blank">https://build.macports.org/builders/buildports-mtln-x86_64/builds/13559/steps/gather%20archives/logs/stdio</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Clemens Lang<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div>