[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [Fwd: Packages review]

[Manuel Prinz]

Hi guys!

Am Montag, den 21.07.2008, 10:27 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> I would suspect that the U of Chicago bit may be in regards to other
> MPI work -- U of Chicago is the 'mother institution' of Argonne Labs
> here in the Chicago suburbs, and they co-drive MPICH2 quite a bit.  
> 
> MPICH2 has a super-liberal and suitable license [ which I got to get
> applied to the up-to-then non-free 'pgapack', also from Argonne ]  So
> I do not expect any issues there.

I had a look at this. Seems like ptmalloc2 and ROMIO have different
licenses. ROMIO is copyrighted by UC and a has a very liberal license,
as Dirk said. ptmalloc2 is licensed under LGPL, though some files are
version 2 or later and some 2.1 or later. I just added version 2 to
debian/copyright since I'm unsure whether we need to name both
explicitely. (Maybe one of the DDs can comment on that.) The relevant
files are:

./opal/mca/memory/ptmalloc2/tst-mallocstate.c: LGPL (v2.1 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 
./opal/mca/memory/ptmalloc2/hooks.c: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 
./opal/mca/memory/ptmalloc2/tst-mstats.c: LGPL (v2.1 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 
./opal/mca/memory/ptmalloc2/sysdeps/generic/malloc-machine.h: LGPL (v2.1 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 
./opal/mca/memory/ptmalloc2/malloc-stats.c: LGPL (v2.1 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 
./opal/mca/memory/ptmalloc2/arena.c: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 
./opal/mca/memory/ptmalloc2/malloc.h: LGPL (v2.1 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) 

Other than that, I did not spot anything else, though I might have
missed something. (Maybe we should convert the file to the new proposed
copyright format after the release since that IMHO helps in keeping
track of license issues.)

If noone else spots other issues, I would prepare an upload and request
a release exception somewhen during the week.

Best regards
Manuel
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