Subject: [bug#61204] Scilab scientific software

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:26:47 +0100

Hi Nicolas,

Simon Tournier <[email-masked]> 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’.