Bug#618696: closed by Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct at debian.org> (Re: elmer: multiple licensing issues)

[Adam C Powell IV]

tags 618696 pending
thanks

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:27 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 23:00 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:43:37 -0400 Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > Let me see if upstream will work with me on this, as they did a linking
> > > exception for OpenCASCADE.
> > 
> > I think the possible solutions, in descending order of desirability,
> > are:
> > 
> >  (A) SCOTCH copyright holders should be contacted and persuaded to
> > re-license (or dual-license) it under GPLv2-compatible terms.
> > 
> >  (B) SCOTCH should be substituted with a GPLv2-compatible
> > replacement, if any is available.
> > 
> >  (C) GPL-licensed work (Elmer and any other work that indirectly links
> > with SCOTCH through Elmer) copyright holders should be asked to add
> > license exceptions that give permission to link their work with code
> > released under CeCILL-C v1.0 .
> 
> I agree with this order.  But B is very unlikely, I have been looking at
> this type of software, and it has taken several years for François to
> bring Scotch close to the capabilities of (Par)METIS.  There are not
> many graph theorists/programmers in the world who can do this, and it
> takes a very long time.
> 
> > Before contacting Elmer upstream (and possibly other GPL-licensed work
> > upstream), I would try solution (A), or maybe (B).
> > Adding linking exception should be regarded as a last resort strategy...
> 
> Okay, I'll try A, though I've already started on C.  We'll see.

Upstream came through with C, and it seems the QPL file which I copied
in is not needed to build Elmer at all.  So this is all resolved.
Changes are in alioth.

I'm chasing down an unrelated issue (introduced in upstream SVN since
after the last Debian upload).  I'll upload when this issue is resolved.

Thanks,
Adam
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