Beowulf non-us (was Re: New maintainer - intent to package LAM 6.1)
--On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 10:18 am +0000 "Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy]"
<amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> The Extreme Linux CD contains GPL'd softwsre packaged as .rpms and .srpms.
> Most of the CD is standard Red Hat 5.1: three or four specialist packages
> [beotools, kernel config, modified kernel sources] are _only_ available
> as .rpms / .srpms. The Beowulf people as NASA are using Red Hat
exclusively:
> AFAICS there are no pristine tarballs. What is the Right Thing to do?
As an aside, I was told yesterday that beowulf had been ruled
non-exportable, since it creates a supercomputer from PCs, and
super-computers are non-exportable.
So are the beowulf tools going to have to go in non-us?
Jules
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