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Bug#395573: Visit: License Problems with SILO



On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:34:31 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:

[...]
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:20:57 +0100 Alastair McKinstry wrote:
[...]
> > 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!!!

Mmmh, the situation seems to be even worse: from a quick look, I cannot
find any grant of permission in the Silo tar archive: this would imply
that Silo is legally undistributable by anyone other than its copyright
holders...    :-(


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