retitle 395573 RFP: visit -- interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool noowner 395573 thanks On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:20:57 +0100 Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, 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). Arrgh! It looks like it really include this clause!!! This seems to be very awkward: a Free Software application (VisIt) which links with a non-free library (Silo) by the same authors! :-( > > AFAIK, this is a show-stopper for packaging VisIT. We could write to > LLNL and see if they > are willing to relinquish this, I think this should definitely be done. > 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, I am not especially enthusiast of Paraview, which ships with its own internal copy of VTK (see bug #495426) and hence does not automatically benefit of any fix or enhancement is applied to the Debian vtk package... Anyway, if Paraview satisfies you, nobody forces you to package VisIt, of course. It's a pity that we found out this after so long time since you turned this RFP into an ITP... :-( The commands at the beginning of this message should convert this ITP back into an RFP. Bye. -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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