2012/9/18 Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org>: > > Something that is *not* legally distributable does *not* magically > become distributable, just because the architecture is not officially > supported by the Debian Project... > This part of the issue may be irrelevant for the release of wheezy, but > not generally irrelevant: I think you should have gmsh removed from the > m68k architecture, in order to make this part of the issue really go > away.
I am not agree. It is NOT officially supported by Debian. Why should we care about that? The version there is 2.3.0, it is very old. > There seem to be other GPL-licensed libraries linked with gmsh: > libcholmod1.7.1 (some parts are GPL-licensed) > libumfpack5.4.0 (UMFPACK is GPL-licensed) > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/suitesparse/current/copyright > Please correct me if I am wrong. > > Linking with these libraries seem to still make the GPL-incompatibility > of OCE/OpenCASCADE very relevant, unfortunately. > If this is really the case, then the possible solutions I can think of > are: > > (A) Open CASCADE S.A.S. should be contacted and persuaded to > re-license Open CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-and-v3-compatible terms. > > (B) Open CASCADE Technology should be substituted with a > GPLv2-and-v3-compatible replacement, if any is available. > > (C) CHOLMOD and UMFPACK copyright holders should be asked to re-license > these libraries under the GNU LGPL. > > (D) CHOLMOD and UMFPACK copyright holders should be asked to add a > license exception that gives permission to link these libraries with > code released under the OCTPL. It is weird to contact upstream of third-party codes to ask about relicensing due to some uncertain license-incompatibilities. Actually libsuitesparse-dev is not even in build-depends of GMSH. I think your statement is irrelevant. Sorry. Thanks. Anton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
