[Gmsh] Suggestion about license issues with tirangle and tetgen

[pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com]

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.

cheers,

    Pedro.



	

	
		
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