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Bug#963630: Aparapi license has changed to a more liberal license



Hi I noticed you had a conversation sometime back here: https://github.com/aparapi/aparapi/issues/50

I wanted to mention that Aparapi is no longer maintained at the address you specified and all developers, including the founder, have moved onto the new repository which is now active and well funded here: https://git.qoto.org/aparapi/aparapi

During that port back in 2016 the license was reviewed by a paid lawyer hired by the new foundation and the license was legally changed. As our lawyer had assured us the original additional verbiage in the license for the original release of Aparapi did not functionally change the license in any way, it simply allowed AMD to protect themselves against any liability should the software be misused. The original added verbiage basically amounted to "You can not break the law when you exercise your rights under this license", which is already implied with an MIT license but not explicitly stated.

As such we were able to legally and effectively relicense the software under the apache license and the new software is licensed wholly under the Apache license with no additional restrictions of any kind. You are free to repackage and redistribute the license exactly as you would under the Apache license.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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