[Libmesh-devel] Relicensing parallel.h?

2012-04-11 Thread Roy Stogner
While sharing a "Who uses the soon-to-be-deprecated C++ MPI bindings?" laugh with a coworker this morning, it came to my attention that some people (even very boost-friendly people like him) avoid the boost::MPI API as well, if only because of the hassle of adding dependencies (or playing with bja

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Relicensing parallel.h?

2012-04-11 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
On 4/11/12 3:05 PM, "Roy Stogner" wrote: > Ben, would you be averse to relicensing parallel.h (and *only* > parallel.h, of course) as something like BSD, to widen the potential > userbase a little further still? Seems like the authorship on it was > about 2000 lines from me, 1000 from you. (alt

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Relicensing parallel.h?

2012-04-11 Thread Roy Stogner
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote: > No major objections, but what additional flexibility would that provide? No > need to provide source for modifications? BSD would mean "no need to provide source for modifications". LGPL in the context of templates seems to mean "maybe y