Re: ITP: ILU

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

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, ...)