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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 August 2008 at 23:56, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| 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.

I'd say go for it!  At least as far as the new upload goes. If it needs a
freeze exemption, I do not know.

Dirk

| 
| Best regards
| Manuel

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