On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:14:45 +0400 Boris Pek wrote: > Hi folks, > > There are few very good news related to licensing of libraries used by Elmer: [...] > 3) tetgen library was relicensed under AGPLv3 since version 1.5.0 [...] and > now > is compatible with software under GPL-3+. If I understand correctly, you > may > just update tetgen-related files in your repo and use them without license > issues. After that tetgen-plugin will be able to be enabled in Debian and > Ubuntu packages.
Hello Boris, I am happy to see that you are following the licensing developments closely. I would like to point out that the GNU AfferoGPL v3 is a controversial license: although it is considered acceptable [1] for Debian main by Debian ftp-masters, it is considered non-free by a number of people (including me [2]...). [1] https://bugs.debian.org/495721#17 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/495721#28 Just to be crystal clear: I am *not* a member of the Debian Project, I am just an external contributor who's very interested (among other things) in licensing issues. Since I think the GNU AfferoGPL v3 is non-free, I would like to kindly ask you to only enable tetgen in elmer as an optional feature. I mean: I would be extremely pleased, if the elmer Debian package did not contain parts under the GNU AfferoGPL v3 and had no strong dependency on tetgen. In other words, I hope that there will be the possibility to install and use the elmer Debian package *without* installing the tetgen Debian package and *without* unpacking AfferoGPL-licensed files onto the system. I hope this is feasible. Thanks for considering. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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