On Oct 23, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Derek Gaston <fried...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What a mess. > > That brings me to another topic... we have other binary blobs in > libMesh... like tecio.a... Don't we have the same problems there? > > At any rate the GPL is madness. This kind of crap really turns me off > of the whole "free software" movement... all I want is free beer - you can keep your free speech! ;-) There are certainly components we distribute which are not strictly open source. Even now that I have source for tecio in the libmesh automake branch, the license of it is unclear. Simply says "copyright Tecplot" To make it super-clear, we could support an --enable-gpl-compliant or something which only uses blessed contributed packages. TecIO is by no means a necessity - we can write Tecplot ASCII format ourselves, it is just a matter of convenience. But whenever it is possible to include what we need to compliantly build everything, I applaud efforts to do so. It could be important for compliant application codes, but also if we were to get packaged by a strict OS as well. I plan to look at building a macports port file and rpm .spec file, which would make it that much easier to get libMesh packaged by someone, and I could easily see a desire to have it be built only from 'pure sources' -Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
