On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:49 -0500, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote: > > I am trying to upload deal.II into Debian unstable, and am running into > > two problems. First, the QPL is incompatible with the GPL of the > > functionparser library, and Debian won't accept anything with the > > potential for a copyright violation suit. Can deal.II get along without > > functionparser? > > Yes, you can ./configure with --disable-parser. I haven't tried this in a > long > time but would still hope that it works.
Thanks, I hadn't noticed that. I'll give it a try. > The fparser library is distributed under two different licenses, only one of > which is the GPL. The other one is more lenient but only pertains to > non-commercial use. I don't know if that's a license that Debian would > accept. The non-commercial restrictions make it non-free for Debian (and opensource.org). The other option is to ask the functionparser authors to grant a linking exception to deal.II, or to QPL software in general... > > Second, Debian unstable has PETSc 3.0 now, but the deal.II build with it > > is running into trouble: > > As Toby mentioned, this has been fixed in the latest dev. We think we'll > probably have a new release in the next 2-3 weeks, so if you aren't in a > hurry it may be worth waiting with uploading to Debian until there's a 6.2 > release. Great! I look forward to seeing -- and uploading -- the new release. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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