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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr>
Cc: 61204@debbugs.gnu.org, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#61204] Scilab scientific software
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:26:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0tpey2w.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o7pudiqo.fsf@gmail.com> (Simon Tournier's message of "Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:57:19 +0100")

Hi Nicolas,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> …I see two issues about licenses:
>
>  1. Metis 4 is not free software
>  2. Scilab is Cecill v2.1 and not gpl2 as the patch suggests.
>
> About #2, the fix is easy. :-)
>
> About #1, it will be difficult.

[...]

> If Scilab 6 works with Metis 5, then there is no issue with the licenses
> and could be included.

Could you check whether using Metis 5 is possible, or whether Metis is
an optional dependency, or whether scotch:metis can be used (Scotch is
another graph partitioner with a Metis compatibility layer)?

TIA,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-16 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-01  1:07 [bug#61204] Scilab scientific software Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-01  1:12 ` [bug#61204] [PATCH 1/6] gnu: matio: Add header file Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-01  1:12   ` [bug#61204] [PATCH 2/6] gnu: Add metis-4 Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-01  1:12   ` [bug#61204] [PATCH 3/6] gnu: Add suitesparse-3 Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-01  1:12   ` [bug#61204] [PATCH 5/6] gnu: scilab: Update to 5.5.1 Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-01  1:12   ` [bug#61204] [PATCH 6/6] gnu: scilab: Update to 5.5.2 Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-10 23:08 ` [bug#61204] Scilab scientific software Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-11 10:11   ` Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-11 10:09 ` [bug#61204] [PATCH] gnu: Add scilab Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-02-15 15:57 ` [bug#61204] Scilab scientific software Simon Tournier
2023-03-16 11:26   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-03-25 14:17     ` Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-04-03 15:43       ` Simon Tournier
2023-03-25 14:15 ` [bug#61204] [PATCH v2 1/3] gnu: matio: Add header file Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-03-25 14:15   ` [bug#61204] [PATCH v2 2/3] gnu: Add suitesparse-3 Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-03-25 14:15   ` [bug#61204] [PATCH v2 3/3] gnu: Add scilab Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via
2023-03-30 20:43     ` bug#61204: " Ludovic Courtès

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