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From: Nicolas Graves <ngraves <at> ngraves.fr>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 61204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#61204] Scilab scientific software
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:17:59 +0100

On 2023-03-16 12:26, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> 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)?

Actually, I've seen that it's possible to compile Suitesparse <at> 3 without
support for Metis <at> 4. Scilab seems to work correctly, so I'll stop here
for this version ;)

I've just send a v2 patch thread. 

>
> TIA,
> Ludo’.
>
>
>

-- 
Best regards,
Nicolas Graves

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