[Beignet] Copyright problem in backend/src/ir/structural_analysis.*
Rebecca N. Palmer
rebecca_palmer at zoho.com
Thu May 14 15:44:50 PDT 2015
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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