Thanks to everyone who provided comments. I've sent a polite email detailing some of the licensing issues upstream. The person who does the Debian packaging for ROOT upstream (Christian Holm Christensen) has said to me by email that he would like to ITP ROOT for Debian, so I will not be filing an ITP myself.
Regards, -- Kevin McCarty Physics Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton University www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544