Please 'reply all' on any replies as I don't normally subscribe to debian-legal, and it will also document the discussion along with the ITP.
I've filed an ITP for LLVM -- the Low-Level Virtual Machine, a compiler toolset that provides a C and C++ compiler. More info on LLVM can be found at http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu. The ITP is #239415. LLVM licensing is a little more complicated than most packages, but I still believe it to be DFSG-compatible and eligible for being in main. Part of LLVM (the C front-end) is borrowed directly from GCC and distribution of the C front-end used by LLVM is covered under the same licensing as GCC. The remainder of LLVM is covered by the LLVM Release License (see http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.4/LICENSE.TXT) which is actually the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. The University of Illinois/NCSA (UI/NCSA) license is very similar to the MIT or BSD license, and software distributed under the UI/NCSA license is OSI Certified Open Source Software (please see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php). Being paranoid about this sort of stuff, I also examined a fairly large random sample of the files (there are ~22K files in the source tree and I sampled roughly 500 of them). Those files all either contained the proper licensing text or were covered by by a file containing the proper text. I also used an experimental text comparison tool to examine all files and feel very confident that the source files are all properly covered by the licenses above in some way. So, based on my understanding of the DFSG, and my understanding of the licensing, I believe this package will be fully DFSG- compatible. What say you all? -- Ciao, al ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Al Stone Alter Ego: Linux & Open Source Lab Debian Developer Hewlett-Packard Company http://www.debian.org E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
