Stephen, Distributing metis as part of Gmsh in FreeBSD is fine with me.
george -----Original Message----- From: Christophe Geuzaine [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:24 AM To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Metis in gmsh On 02/01/10 06:00, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I am the maintainer of the FreeBSD port of gmsh. I see that Metis has > been included in the code. What are the license terms of using Gmsh with > Metis? I found your email addresses in the source code, but I couldn't > find much detail about the license terms. Hi Stephen - Metis is not distributed under an open source license. However, George Karypis allowed us to distribute Metis along with Gmsh (cf. gmsh/contrib/Metis/README.txt). Gmsh is distributed under the GNU GPL, with an exception to handle precisely this case (cf. gmsh/doc/LICENSE.txt) === Gmsh is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the following exception: The copyright holders of Gmsh give you permission to combine Gmsh with code included in the standard release of TetGen (from Hang Si), Netgen (from Joachim Sch"oberl), Chaco (from Bruce Hendrickson and Robert Leland at Sandia National Laboratories) and METIS (from George Karypis at the University of Minnesota) under their respective licenses. You may copy and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for Gmsh and the licenses of the other code concerned, provided that you include the source code of that other code when and as the GNU GPL requires distribution of source code. Note that people who make modified versions of Gmsh are not obligated to grant this special exception for their modified versions; it is their choice whether to do so. The GNU General Public License gives permission to release a modified version without this exception; this exception also makes it possible to release a modified version which carries forward this exception. End of exception. === Best, Christophe > > Thanks, Stephen > > -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine !DSPAM:4b434b9720200623221151! _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
