I've always noticed that clause on his website... never new it was actually in the source!
That is just a weird clause in general... and certainly libMesh has no business having a clause like that in it. It's really only going to end up being bad for him.' BTW: The boolalpha thing doesn't really work out. It's not case insensitive for one thing... Derek On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Roy Stogner wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Derek Gaston wrote: > >> On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Roy Stogner wrote: >> >>> None of this would go in right now; just something to add after I try >>> submitting this upstream. Major feature additions (including the >>> "include other config files" functionality that motivated my messing >>> around with getpot in the first place) can wait until we know whether >>> they're going into getpot 1.3 or just libmesh_forked_getpot 1.1. >> >> Can you include other config files now?!?! That's something my users >> actually want right now... > > No, not yet - I figured before I made such a big change I should get > us up to date with the latest GetPot, which is turning out to be a > little more involved than initially anticipated. > > In particular, when I was hunting down Frank Schaefer's email address > I noticed that he'd changed the licensing on us: his LGPL now "is > only valid in case that it is not used for the production or > development of applications dedicated to military industry". Now, I'm > pretty sure NASA's not going to turn FIN-S into the next reentry > warhead simulator, and I don't *think* INL is using nuclear reactors > research as a cover for designing the next superweapon, but regardless > we're not going to put anything critical into libMesh that violates > the Open Source Definition. So unless he agrees to go back to the > pure LGPL the idea of "submitting upstream" becomes moot - we'll have > to fork version 1.1, that being the latest I can find without the > "unofficial peace version" of the license. > --- > Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
