libOpenCL source code available

[Vincent Danjean]

  Hi,

Le 30/05/2013 16:49, Andreas Beckmann a écrit :
> Ahh, nice. Thanks for that information. Adding Vincent to the Cc.
> On 2013-05-30 16:09, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/cl/specs/opencl-icd-1.2.11.0.tgz
>>
>> I've tried building it and it seems to build fine on my machine. The
>> source also includes a small icd loading test tool.
>>
>> I'm not sure about what kind of customizations vendors do the loader,
>> but I would be honestly be happier with having the reference,
>> open-source loader rather than a proprietary one or the
>> reverse-engineered one from the ocl project.

  Do you look at the LICENSE.txt file in the sources?
Just one extract:
[...]
1. The Materials shall NOT be distributed to any third party;
[...]

  So, you can now read the source. You can compile and test
then. If you do not modify the source, you should be able to
redistribute the binary. If you modify the source, there
are additional restrictions. But you can not redistribute the
sources.
  You can call it "open-source" as you can see the source,
but, for now, this is clearly non-free *and* it even does
not qualify for the Debian non-free section (sources not
redistributable)


  So, before using/importing some part of this, take care
of the license. Else, you might contaminate other OpenCL
software...

  Regards,
    Vincent

PS: the license probably comes from before the publication
of these sources (I see no point now to block the
redistribution of the sources). But until the license is
changed, I see no interest of this software for Debian.

PPS: it is "strange" that these sources have been published
a few month after ocl-icd have been written and
published... ;-)

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