Sorry for writing to you - I was not able to find email of person responsible for managing AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing SDK. Feel free to forward this email to AMD APP team. Hello. I am involved in development and packaging PyOpenCL (http://mathema.tician.de/software/pyopencl), Python wrapper for OpenCL. I am maintainer of Debian python-pyopencl package. Currently Debian (and Ubuntu) only provides NVIDIA OpenCL implementation. Recently I have received bug report demanding support for AMD OpenCL implementation: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628702 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pyopencl/+bug/763457 . I have checked that python-pyopencl works correctly with AMD APP. I have opened bug asking for Debian Developer to package AMD APP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629518 Andreas Beckmann (CC'd) started working on packaging but current license prevents AMD APP SDK from being distributed by Debian, even in non-free section. Would it be possible to change license to DFSG-free (Debian Free Software Guidelines) one? This way AMD APP could be distributed in by Debian without any restrictions. According to http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ DFSG-free licenses include GPL, LGPL, BSD, Apache, MIT, Perl artistic license, and others. If changing license to the free one is not possible, debian-legal team claims that: "something like this would be better [than current license]: http://intellinuxwireless.org/LICENSE.iwlwifi-ucode " Best regards. -- Tomasz Rybak <bogomips@post.pl> GPG/PGP key ID: 2AD5 9860 Fingerprint A481 824E 7DD3 9C0E C40A 488E C654 FB33 2AD5 9860 http://member.acm.org/~tomaszrybak
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