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

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 20:47:57 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> 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:
[...]
> > > > 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.

I apologize, but your reply is not too clear to me.
Could you please elaborate a bit?

Have you tried to get in touch with François Pellegrini, directly or
indirectly?
Have you tried to explain the issue to him and to persuade him that
SCOTCH should be re-licensed (or dual-licensed) under
GPLv2-or-later-compatible terms?



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