Bug#736916: [tetgen] please upgrade to 1.5.0

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:31:49 +0100 Christophe Trophime wrote:

> 
> On 28 Jan 2014, at 13:18, Anton Gladky <gladk at 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.


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