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

[alberto.castro at tddft.org]

	OK, wednesday 5pm.

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Heiko Appel wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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