On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:33:21PM +0000, Devdeep Singh wrote: > The API library and the API documentation are behind an account which Intel > provides. So should we get in touch with legal for this? If yes, who can help > here? > > Given this, is it still possible to keep it as a separate profile which is > disabled by default if legal permits? > > Regards, > Devdeep
This is problematic IMO for 2 reasons: #1 Community angle: =================== If it's not possible for some to access that library, even if we make it it's own build target, then how can anyone test it? On one hand, we place a burden on ourselves in a similar way for every non-oss dependency. On the other hand, the fact that we already *sort of* deal with this already might mean that the difference is minimal WRT community issues. Have you tried asking Intel if they would switch to open publication of the library (not for open sourcing it, although that wouldn't suck). #2 Legal aspects: ================= Any discussion of the legal aspects will start with a copy of the license itself. We're stuck without that. We need to understand what we are dealing with here in the project first, and then we should bring any questions to legal-discuss@a.o after our initial review. -chip
