Re: Licensing issue with Gmsh?

[zimoun]

Dear Paul,

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 18:26, Paul Garlick
<pgarlick@tourbillion-technology.com> wrote:

> Thank you for working on the Gmsh package.  There have been a great
> many changes since the last update.

Yeah, the Christophe's talk at last FOSDEM was exciting about the new
features in 4.x. ;-)
And since the Guix v1.2 is in the pipe...


> There is a distinction between METIS (free) and ParMETIS (non-free)
> which may have influenced the decision to remove the whole metis
> directory.  As far as I can see Gmsh does not use any files from the
> ParMETIS library.

That's what Christophe (Geuzaine) told me.  Cool!


> There is only a parmetis.c file included in the metis directory.
> However, it is commented out in CMakeLists.txt.

Here [1] the patch updating Gmsh.  Well, I missed this file (the base
code changed a lot since last time I was playing with; ~2012-2016),
thank you for explaining.
To be "Guix compliant", this parametis.c file should be removed, right?

[1] <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/43761>


All the best,
simon