Trilinos packages

[Nico Schlömer]

I see that ParMETIS is free for educational purposes only
<http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/download>, so
requiring it as a dependency makes Trilinos installable for edu-only
as well. ParMETIS is optional to Trilinos so I might as well removed
it without major repercussions.
Are there general Debian guidelines for such situations? What's your
opinion on this?

--Nico

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Felix Salfelder <felix at salfelder.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>> Strange, libparmetis-dev should be in jessie, cf.
>> <https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libparmetis-dev>.
>
> indeed it is, and i missed that. curiously, parmetis is non-free, and
> that is why i missed it.
>
> from my understanding (to some extent?) trilinos is free, so it might
> make sense to not use/link\ against libparmetis. doesn't the build
> dependency render your package non-free?
>
> particularly, there is gplv3 licensed software around (xyce) that build
> depends on trilinos. i'm no license or dfsg expert, anyhow, this doesn't
> look very clean to me..
>
> thanks
> felix