On 02/05/2013 05:29 PM US Central Time, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Pavan Balaji, le Tue 05 Feb 2013 23:53:54 +0100, a écrit : >> I checked libnuma, which seems to be LGPL (phew!), but didn't look at >> the remaining libraries hwloc uses. > > Right. If hwloc was strictly requiring a GPL library to be able to > run, providing it under BSD would be questionable: you'd have to find a > non-GPL replacement for the GPL libraries in order to produce a binary > which is not GPL.
At the very least, you have to warn users. My preference would be to disable it by default and have users opt-in to linking with libpci. -- Pavan -- Pavan Balaji http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
