[Debian-med-packaging] Aparapi license has changed to a more liberal license

[Andreas Tille]

Dear Jeffrey,

thanks a lot for the good news.  We will package from the new location
for Debian then.

Kind regards

    Andreas.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:03:12PM -0400, Jeffrey Freeman wrote:
> 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 I wanted to mention that Aparapi is no longer maintained at the address you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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