Bug#720092: Please package ocl

[Andrey Gursky]

Hi David,

2013/8/18, David Bremner <david at tethera.net>:
> Andrey Gursky <andrey.gursky at e-mail.ua> writes:
>
>
>> 2.4.6 (July 2013):
>> Binary compatiblility with both OpenCL 1.1/1.2 platforms. Now the
>> binaries compiled with any of AMD/Intel/Nvidia's SDK can run on all
>> other platforms.
>>
>> Please, consider packaging this module.
>
> Do you happen to know if this module is usable with a free (as in
> [1]) OpenCL platform? Otherwise it might be a bit tricky to distribute
> in Debian main.
>

I assume, ocl being a part of opencv has the same license. Why should
developers decide for users how ocl module can be used. I mean, ocl
module itself is as free as whole opencv. If one needs to install some
opencl libraries from non-free, why should this impact the right of
ocl module to be packaged in main? It would depend only on ocl-icd
from main.

> To be honest, I don't know if any free OpenCL platform has reached the
> usable stage, but I'd certainly be interested to know about one that
> had.
>

Usable stage? There is a fpgatools package with only "hello world"
functionality (proof of concept). But that's great it is already in
testing! I mean, Debian users should decide whether some package is
useful for them or not; it's impossible to do this for all of them.

> [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
>

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, what do you think?

Regards,
Andrey