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)
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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
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