[Gmsh] Suggestion about license issues with tirangle and tetgen

[Christophe Geuzaine]

pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I am using triangle and tetgen with gmsh on FreeBSD and it's really great to
> have these alternatives... thanks!
> 
> On the FreeBSD port, unfortunately, the licensing issues prohibit us from
> redistributing gmsh with tetgen and triangle. Of course this is a problem
> derived from the license in both utilities and not really gmsh's fault. 
> 
> One thing could be done to alleviate the problem though: Adding exceptions to
> the GPL for linking with these libraries as explained in the GPL FAQ would
> permit people to make distributions of the package and libraries, although
> without charging any fee with it.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
> 
> I just thought I'd suggest it as it does help improve the functionality of gmsh
> to have more algorithms packaged.
> 

Seems reasonable enough. We will think about it.

Thanks for the info!

Christophe


> cheers,
> 
>     Pedro.
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