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


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