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Richard Guenther <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: Here I provide the license for the OpenPOOMA project (the 
original POOMA license is just the license at the bottom of the license).  If 
you have concerns to the wording of the license to the POOMA changes, I will 
happily apply suggested changes.

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OpenPOOMA is based on POOMA 2.4.0 which is licensed under the
conditions stated at the end of this file.  Changes to this baseline,
distributed as OpenPOOMA, are subject to the following License (based
on the MIT license), which is as follows:

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

All copyright notices and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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The POOMA 2.4.0 license is as follows (note that ACL is no more, thus
address@hidden and http://www.acl.lanl.gov/pooma/ are dead):

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This software and ancillary information (herein called "SOFTWARE")
called POOMA (Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications) is
made available under the terms described here.  The SOFTWARE has been
approved for release with associated LA-CC Number LA-CC-98-65.

Unless otherwise indicated, this SOFTWARE has been authored by an
employee or employees of the University of California, operator of the
Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-36 with
the U.S. Department of Energy.  The U.S. Government has rights to use,
reproduce, and distribute this SOFTWARE. The public may copy, distribute,
prepare derivative works and publicly display this SOFTWARE without
charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are
reproduced on all copies.  Neither the Government nor the University
makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or
responsibility for the use of this SOFTWARE.

If SOFTWARE is modified to produce derivative works, such modified
SOFTWARE should be clearly marked, so as not to confuse it with the
version available from LANL.

For more information about POOMA, send e-mail to address@hidden,
or visit the POOMA web page at http://www.acl.lanl.gov/pooma/.
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Package: OpenPOOMA
System name: openpooma
Type: non-GNU

Description:
POOMA is a C++ library supporting element-wise, data-parallel, and 
stencil-basedphysics computations using one or more processors.  The library 
automatically handles all interprocessor communication, obviating the need for 
any explicit communication code and enabling the same program to be run on one 
or thousands of processors.  The library supports high-level syntax close to 
mathematical or algorithmic syntax, easing the conversion from algorithms to 
code.

POOMA was originally developed at the Advanced Computing Laboratory of
Los Alamos National Laboratory.  ACL has been shut down recently and 
development continued at CodeSourcery, LLC, where the current CVS is hosted as 
of today.  CodeSourcery can no longer support development of the POOMA library, 
and as the main contributor in the last two years I was asked to move hosting 
to a public site.

The current hosting site is http://www.codesourcery.com/pooma/ where also 
anonymous CVS is provided.

The moved POOMA project will be distributed as OpenPOOMA to comply with the 
license from LANL and changes to the library will be licensed under a MIT style 
license.

The current POOMA sources contain some .gif files in its documentation which 
will be either converted in CVS or manually without preserving CVS history (as 
you like).  The current POOMA sources support using of certain packages with 
unclear (no) or free licenses.  Alternative free support for the extra features 
is provided, or the support for using of those (unmaintained) packages will be 
removed to ease maintainance of the library.

Other Software Required:
OpenPOOMA requires a standard conforming C++ implementation including a C++ 
runtime library.
OpenPOOMA can optionally use a MPI library (such as MPICH or LAM) for message 
passing parallelism. OpenPOOMA can optionally be compiled with an OpenMP 
supporting compiler for thread level parallelism.
OpenPOOMA contains (optional) interfaces to the HDF5 and the PETSc libraries.

All the packages above are available in the Debian main archive.

Other Comments:
Beyond http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2004-10/msg00741.html
there is some fuss about the licensing of POOMA.

I asked address@hidden about the licensing and licensing of changes to the 
source under ticket #213170, the license was said to be GPL compatible and a 
differing license for changes to POOMA was considered ok.

In the progress of moving the project a present CVSROOT has to be installed and 
(optionally) mailing-list archives in mbox format can be moved.


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