Hi Barry, We've already asked Sherri about this, and she says she has permission to use it in DSuperLU. It's in hypre because we currently bundle DSuperLU in our release.
-Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:23 PM > To: Falgout, Rob; Xiaoye S. Li > Cc: petsc-dev > Subject: > > > Sherri and Rob, > > I noticed both of you guys distribute MC64AD with your libraries which > includes the following copyright/license statement. Did you receive > permission > to distribute this source code from Iain or Jacko and how general is that > permission, just for you or for other groups also? That is, is there an > alternative > license that allows this source code to be distributed? > > Thanks > > Barry > > > > CCCCC COPYRIGHT (c) 1999 Council for the Central Laboratory of the > CCCCC Research Councils. All rights reserved. > CCCCC PACKAGE MC64A/AD > CCCCC AUTHORS Iain Duff ([email protected]) and Jacko Koster ([email protected]) > CCCCC LAST UPDATE 20/09/99 CCCCC C *** Conditions on external use *** C C > The user shall acknowledge the contribution of this C package in any > publication > of material dependent upon the use of C the package. The user shall use > reasonable endeavours to notify C the authors of the package of this > publication. > C > C The user can modify this code but, at no time C shall the right or title to > all or > any part of this package pass C to the user. The user shall make available > free of > charge C to the authors for any purpose all information relating to any C > alteration or addition made to this package for the purposes of C extending > the > capabilities or enhancing the performance of this C package. > C > C The user shall not pass this code directly to a third party without the C > express > prior consent of the authors. Users wanting to licence their C own copy of > these > routines should send email to [email protected] C C None of the comments from > the Copyright notice up to and including this C one shall be removed or > altered in > any way. >
