[Octopus-devel] [karypis@cs.umn.edu: RE: [marques@teor.fis.uc.pt: Distributing METIS]]

[Heiko Appel]

Hi,

FYI.

I have the in-tree METIS stuff already prepared and will commit
the changes later today. Hopefully the build problems, that people 
were frequently encountering, are then solved.

Now only a few issues are left, which we should be able to sort out
in a couple of days. I'm looking forward to the release of 2.0 next
week.

Should we have another IRC meeting prior to the release? How about
Wednesday next week at 5pm (I'm Monday and Tuesday out of town)?

cheers,

	Heiko


----- Forwarded message from George Karypis <karypis at cs.umn.edu> -----

From: George Karypis <karypis at cs.umn.edu>
To: 'Heiko Appel' <appel at physik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: RE: [marques at teor.fis.uc.pt: Distributing METIS]
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:27:27 -0600

Heiko & Miguel,

You have my permission to include Metis's source code within your 
build environment. Here is the text for the copyright that you can
put with the code.

George

Copyright Notice
----------------

The ParMETIS/METIS package is copyrighted by the Regents of the 
University of Minnesota. It can be freely used for educational and 
research purposes by non-profit institutions and US government agencies 
only.  Other organizations are allowed to use ParMETIS/METIS only for 
evaluation purposes, and any further uses will require prior approval. 
The software may not be sold or redistributed without prior approval. 
One may make copies of the software for their use provided that the 
copies, are not sold or distributed, are used under the same terms 
and conditions.

As unestablished research software, this code is provided on an
``as is'' basis without warranty of any kind, either expressed or
implied. The downloading, or executing any part of this software
constitutes an implicit agreement to these terms. These terms and
conditions are subject to change at any time without prior notice. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Heiko Appel [mailto:appel at physik.fu-berlin.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:47 PM
To: karypis at cs.umn.edu
Cc: Miguel Marques; Heiko Appel; Alberto Castro
Subject: [marques at teor.fis.uc.pt: Distributing METIS]

----- Forwarded message from Miguel Marques <marques at teor.fis.uc.pt> -----

Subject: Distributing METIS
From: Miguel Marques <marques at teor.fis.uc.pt>
To: metis at cs.umn.edu, Heiko Appel <appel at physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:41:44 +0100

  Dear METIS Authors,

  We have been using your great METIS library in our project named
octopus (http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/). This is a Quantum
Chemistry/Physics program that is able to calculate several properties
of molecules and solids. It is based on finite differences, and there
are several research groups around the world using it. It is licensed
under the GPL.

  The parallel version of octopus uses METIS to perform the mesh
partitioning. It works extremely well, and we are very happy with the
work you have done in the library. However, our users have
systematically problems compiling the code, the main reason being the
external libraries used. Therefore, to make the code more user-friendly
to compile (remember that the target population are physicists and
chemists, and not computer scientists), we decided that it would be a
good idea to distribute the libraries with the code, and to allow them
to be automatically built if they are not present in the system.

  So, we would like to ask for your authorization to distribute METIS
inside the octopus package. Of course, all copyright notices, licenses,
etc. would be kept, and in the main LICENSE file for octopus we would
clearly state that METIS is not GPL, etc.

  Regards,
  Miguel Marques

P.S. Just for curiosity, have you considered to license METIS under the
(L)GPL in the future?


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