Re: BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:43:53PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> > Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > Where is this proprietary library distributed?
> >
> > In AMD website.
> >
> > If the user downloads it and installs it, BOINC will use it, and will be
> > able to detect your ATI cards. In order to use the proprietary library, it
> > uses the function declarations in the cal.h header distributed with the
> > package.
>
> It seems like AMD should really be distributing these header files
> with a maximum permissive license like MIT/Expat or similar. Perhaps
> someone should contact them and try to get it to happen?
Or maybe nobody should care, because they don't contain anything
copyrightable ? (except maybe comments)
Mike
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