Re: ITP: ILU
Jim Pick writes:
> Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 07:16:08PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
> >
> > > Before you do that, I seem to remember that the license for ILU had been
> > > cleared up a couple of months ago. Looking at
> > > ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html
> > > I can't see why it shouldn't go in main.
> >
> > Quoting /usr/doc/ilu/copyright:
> >
> > Any distribution of this software, a modified version thereof, or a
> > derivative work must comply with all applicable United States export
> > control laws.
>
> So? We have to comply with US export laws anyways. If somebody else
> wants to break those laws, it doesn't come back at us - they just lose
> their right to use/distribute the software.
>
> > We can't ensure this so this has to go into non-free :(
> >
> > Silly lawyers.
>
> It should go back into main.
No, because it depends on jdk1.1-dev, which is in contrib. So please
keep it in contrib until it can be compiled with another java
(gcj/libgcj, kaffe, ...)
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