Re: CAMD libraries

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 13-Apr-2007, Carlo de Falco wrote:
>
> | P.S. As far as I understand, although it is not free  software,
> | METIS is open source.
>
> That doesn't help the users of Octave  since the terms of
> distribution of METIS are not compatible with the GPL.
>
> jwe
>
>   
Yes, but a user might choose to link against METIS for their personal
use. The problem only comes into play if they then want to distribute
that binary, as METIS is not distributable in the sense of the GPL. Also
note that I believe PMETIS (not METIS) has a non-commercial use
condition on it as well..

D.

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