On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:31:49 +0100 Christophe Trophime wrote: > > On 28 Jan 2014, at 13:18, Anton Gladky <gl...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Hi Christophe! > > > > Good to know, that tetgen has been relicensed! > > I will try to upload it in the evening. > > > > Could, you, please, then have a look at gmsh to enable this feature there? > > Yes of course > I also plan to merge gmsh-tetgen with gmsh as there is no more issue with > non-free software. > I manage to build gmsh-tetgen with tetgen, netgen 5.1… but I need to patch > gush for metis. > Then we can complete the merge.
Hello Christophe and Anton, I would like to thank you for working on the gmsh Debian package. However, I would like to point out that the GNU AfferoGPL v3 is a controversial license: despite being considered acceptable [1] for Debian main by Debian ftp-masters, it is considered non-free by a number of people (including me [2]...). [1] https://bugs.debian.org/495721#17 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/495721#28 Please note that I am *not* a member of the Debian Project, I am just an external contributor who's very interested (among other things) in licensing issues. Since I think the GNU AfferoGPL v3 is non-free, I would like to kindly ask you to only enable tetgen in gmsh as an optional feature. In other words, I hope there will still be the possibility to install and use the gmsh Debian package *without* installing the tetgen Debian package and *without* unpacking AfferoGPL-licensed files onto the system. That is to say, no strong dependencies on tetgen or inclusion of tetgen files into the gmsh package, please! I really hope this can be done. Thanks for your time and patience. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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