Bug#741196: libpetsc3.4.2: libpetsc.so.3.4.2 links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 17/09/16 at 10:13 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 19:23:48 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 19:27:47 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> [...]
> > > It seems that the main SCOTCH copyright holders is Francois Pellegrini,
> > 
> > It is my understanding that he is the main author, but the copyright
> > holder is INRIA (along with ENSEIRB and CNRS).
> > Please see
> > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/s/scotch/copyright-5.1.12b.dfsg-2
> > 
> > However, I agree with you that François is really the person to be
> > persuaded.
> > 
> > Once he is convinced that SCOTCH should be re-licensed, I think he
> > will know who has to be contacted, in order to obtain the necessary
> > paperwork. Or, at least, I hope so.
> > 
> > > who is very active in the French Free Software community. One of the
> > > colleagues (same Inria research team) of Francois is Brice Goglin, who
> > > is a DD. So it might be useful to try to contact them.
> > 
> > This is the kind of help I have been asking for since I filed these
> > bug reports.
> > If you can get in touch with François Pellegrini, directly or
> > indirectly, and explain the issue to him in a convincing manner,
> > then I would be really really grateful.
> > 
> > As I said, I tried multiple times, but François no longer replies
> > to my e-mail messages. That's why I need help from people more likely
> > to be listened to.
> [...]
> 
> Hello again Lucas,
> is there any progress on this issue?

Not that I'm aware of, sorry.

Lucas