Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-29 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 10:51 +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > > If I'm reading that right, we can link it from BSD and LGPL > libraries. > Currently MUMPS is in Debian used by > > getfem++   LGPL > petsc  BSD-2 > which is used by dolfin  LGPL > trilinos   BSD

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 11:04 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Drew Parsons writes ("Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C > licence"): > > If I'm reading that right, we can link it from BSD and LGPL > > libraries. > > Currently MUMPS is in Debian used by >

Re: freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-22 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 13:07 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Drew Parsons writes ("freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C > licence"): > > There are various discussions about the status of the CeCILL-C > > licence > > v1 (and other CeCILL licences) in the history of th

freeness and compatibility of CeCILL-C licence

2017-03-21 Thread Drew Parsons
There are various discussions about the status of the CeCILL-C licence v1 (and other CeCILL licences) in the history of this mailing list. It's not listed at https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ but when it last came up on this list, Thibaut Paumard suggested it's fine, LGPL compatible,  https:/

Re: DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, 2015-09-19 at 21:22 +1000, Riley Baird wrote: > > But do we need to be pedantic about upstream pdf files? > > > > Our petsc distribution would be in principle be improved if we were > > to > > include the pdf manuals. > > Yeah, I completely understand. Especially seeing as we now have > t

Re: DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, 2015-09-19 at 19:21 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi Drew > > On 19 September 2015 at 10:46, Drew Parsons > wrote: > > As far as the win32 exe goes, maintenance would be simpler if we > > didn't > > have to generate a separate dfsg-free upstream tarball

DFSG status of petsc

2015-09-19 Thread Drew Parsons
What is Debian policy on pdf documentation in upstream source? dolfin needs an updated petsc to run optimally (multiple processors). And dolfin is cool, so I'll update petsc (the latest version at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc is 3.6.1). We've been using a dfsg version of petsc. The dfsg impact

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-19 Thread Drew Parsons
David wrote: > > Even worse is how question 8 of the FAQ contradicts section 2c of the > license since this has much graver consequences: > > 8. Does this license prevent me shipping any alternative technologies > in my OS distribution? > > The DLJ does not restrict you from shipping any

Re: Chemical modelling software

2000-08-22 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:08:49PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Both `for non-commercial and non-military purposes' make it > non-free. > > This looks okay for non-free. > > You might want to talk to them about it, but perhaps this is > typical in your field (and the author has a hope of

Chemical modelling software

2000-08-21 Thread Drew Parsons
Hi, my name is Drew Parsons, I'm in the queue to become a Debian maintainer and am waiting to be processed. My training has been in theoretical chemistry and therefore I'm interested in having the best available chemical modelling programs in Debian. Currently Debian has rasmol, mai