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		jonhohle on Feb 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X) It may not have started out that way (but it may have, I'm not sure), but MacPorts is an Apple hosted project: http://www.macosforge.org/ What they don't host is the source or compiled versions of any of the packages in the MacPorts repository - potentially for the same reason they include no GPLv3 software in their OS.

rbanffy on Feb 13, 2012 | [–]

It would be perfectly safe for Apple to offer the resources required by the MacPorts project to function adequately.

paxswill on Feb 13, 2012 | [–]

In some cases, they do. This is especially apparent if you're still using MacPort with PPC, as most of the packages it pulls down are form the MacPorts servers.

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