Hi Alex, > On 22 Jul 2019, at 23:53, Alexander Lindsay <alexlindsay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am one of the primary developers of the moose framework, and we are curious > about adding some meshing utilities that would leverage the relatively new > gmsh c++ API. However, we are licensed under LGPL v2.1, so as it stands now > we cannot link to to the GPL-licensed gmsh library. It looks like several > more permissively-licensed software packages have been given exceptions > (looking at your LICENSE.txt file). We would be interested in also pursuing > an exception, but we were not quite sure how to interpret the exception. The > packages mentioned there seem to be AFAICT optional dependencies of gmsh, and > not the reverse. If MOOSE was added as an exception, would packages that > linked to MOOSE and consequently to gmsh have to be GPLv2+?
Yes, that's my understanding, so indeed I'm not sure if an exception is useful in your case. Cheers, Christophe > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > gmsh@onelab.info > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh — Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list gmsh@onelab.info http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
