Re: [petsc-dev] NVIDIA licensing

2021-09-07 Thread Barry Smith
There is no way to do do it consistently for all contributors, it would be a big mess plus it would miss all the history. If NVIDIA requires it to contribute then I see no harm in having those two lines in certain source files. It is not tracking provenance in any way, it is just a way

Re: [petsc-dev] NVIDIA licensing

2021-09-06 Thread Satish Balay via petsc-dev
> > 2) NVIDIA's lawyers have some thoughts that we will need to address When I saw this is, my thought was: ANL lawyers would be involved here [as generally employees couldn't respond to legal stuff] > git grep Copyright locates some files that are copyrighted by other groups > (but fit

Re: [petsc-dev] NVIDIA licensing

2021-09-06 Thread Jed Brown
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021, at 7:16 PM, Barry Smith wrote: > > * We should also add some text to LICENSE indicating certain files have > additional copyrights indicated at the top of the individual file.* > ** Copyright is held by hundreds of individuals and organizations. I'm not a fan of having

Re: [petsc-dev] NVIDIA licensing

2021-09-06 Thread Barry Smith
git grep Copyright locates some files that are copyrighted by other groups (but fit within the BSD license) so I think it is fine to include the NVIDIA copyright information in appropriate files. We should also add some text to LICENSE indicating certain files have additional copyrights

[petsc-dev] NVIDIA licensing

2021-09-03 Thread Mark Adams
All, Matthew (cc'ed) and I are going to start working on an AMGx interface in PETSc, PCAMGX, and I suggested that he may want to think about moving the core AMG PC code into PETSC as a built-in PC. 1) We would have to decide of we want the maintenance burden of moving the whole thing in, but we