Bug#395573: Visit: License Problems with SILO

[Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie>]

Hi,

I've been looking at packaging SILO, a mandatory dependency of VisIt.
Unfortunately, it contains the following license clause:

	Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the
	Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  
(LLNL).

AFAIK, this is a show-stopper for packaging VisIT.  We could write to  
LLNL and see if they
are willing to relinquish this, but since I started this ITP, Paraview  
has been packaged for
Debian, and it does my visualisation needs, so I am no longer  
packaging visit.

Sorry about this,
Alastair



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