On 29 Oct 2012, at 09:39, Andre Massing <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Dear Christophe, > > thank you very much for providing us with the relevant information! > > On 10/26/2012 09:31 AM, Christophe Geuzaine wrote: > > [snip] > >> >> Since the Fedora packaging policy only allows to bundle 3rd party >> libraries in exceptional cases, we would like to ask you a few >> questions about the use and the origin of the sources resided in >> the gmsh/contrib folder: -HighOrderMeshOptimizer >> >> Is this an official, separate module of gmsh and if so, it is >> licensed under the same license as gmsh? If the sources originate >> from other 3rd party code, could you point out where the original >> sources can be obtained and whether they have been modified in the >> gmsh sources? >> >> >>> This is currently under heavy development; the final license has >>> not be chosen yet. > > Ok, I guess it then has to be - at least temporarily - removed from a > fedora package, as long as the license has not be chosen. > >> >> -lbfgs from the ALGLIB project - http://www.alglib.net/ Are the >> sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be used in >> principal? >> >>> Yes, it's the same code. >> >> >> - mmg3d, MMG3D from >> http://www.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/~cdobrzyn/logiciels/mmg3d.php >> >> >>> Same code, with a few patches to make it compile on Windows/Mac. >> >> Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be >> used? >> >> - Salome Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original >> sources be used? >> >> >>> Same code, with a few patches to make it compile with recent >>> versions of open cascade (patches might have made their way into >>> the original code, too). > > OK, great, we then can/must package these ones separately. The > Windows/Mac patches are not really that relevant for Fedora :) and the > open cascade libs are in a non-free repo which probably means that > gmsh will be built without linking against the open cascade > libraries. By the way, does that mean a severe reduction in the > functionality of gmsh? > Yes: not linking with opencascade means that Gmsh will not be able to import CAD models in STEP, IGES or BRep formats. > Thanks for your help! > > Best, > Andre > >> >>> Cheers, >> >>> Christophe >> >> We would really appreciate if you could help us with clarifying >> the use and origin of these sources in order to make a decision >> whether bundling might be acceptible or a packaging of some of the >> original sources might be a more adequate solution. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Andre Massing and Alexey Vasyukov >>> >>> _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing >>> list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQjkCwAAoJEA79ggnbq9dmtWkH/il+xmoY/vFIN7t8EcNABpsP > aUC9+uIHyIUDHrpwxi3338LGDiBsRQbRLvkPjLSlAsycBd9QUGx7qxs0CaHxY8/e > pDdJoiJIsMi+sum16/5HDy5mbUmF3RydFjarHFM+8bx/0LbbqWLC8/wRkuVYIkBW > PSTzzK34j+hkvRy9Ntvnnd8vmfM01UuCHk6vt1DDQ4Ek/LvJJOfNf+i+p9yRr0KV > ti5Get/qZAw6DgTUxNmX0h5vZZCcy61u19HKSiUk/c7ldhYBk2+8uhdFVm55Ou7o > DC4iHPRDU13jtcd/ITNeqVlZg/wt3kOTzl4s2IcsGObgjAEwww2Y7bJohSonC1s= > =kncg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
