[Beignet] Copyright problem in backend/src/ir/structural_analysis.*

[Zhigang Gong]

Thanks for reporting this issue. We will contact gpuocelot team soon.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Rebecca N. Palmer <rebecca_palmer at zoho.com>
wrote:

> Since commit d47f6dd8f308323919d2acb0c1b9f562c084866c, beignet has
> included backend/src/ir/structural_analysis.* based on gpuocelot.
>
> gpuocelot's license was then "BSD plus you must obey US export
> restrictions (even if you are not in the US)".  This is non-free by
> Debian's definition[1,2], and means that beignet as a whole is no longer
> LGPL.
>
> gpuocelot has since added a top-level LICENSE notice without the
> problematic clause[3], but also still has ocelot/COPYING with it[4], making
> its actual license unclear; the obvious next step would be to ask them for
> clarification.
>
> This is currently being discussed in Debian at [5].
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/04/msg00030.html
> [2] https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq part 12p
> [3] https://github.com/gtcasl/gpuocelot/blob/master/LICENSE
> [4] https://github.com/gtcasl/gpuocelot/blob/master/ocelot/COPYING
> [5]
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-opencl-devel/Week-of-Mon-20150511/date.html
>
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