Re: [deal.II] A question on licenses

2023-09-13 Thread Matthias Maier
[Standard bla bla: I am not a lawyer] Generally speaking, yes. If you happen to use deal.II with any of the GPL only derivatives (such as GMSH, or more importantly, P4est) then the "effective" license for deal.II would be GPL [1,2,3]. But generally this is only of concern if you - distribute d

[deal.II] A question on licenses

2023-09-13 Thread Simon Sticko
Hi. The function GridIn::read_msh uses the Gmsh-api internally to read a mesh from file. However, Gmsh is distributed under GPL and not LGPL. Does this mean that one can not use this function if one wants to use deal.II under LGPL? Best, Simon -- The deal.II project is located at http://www