[Gmsh] fedora packaging and gmsh/contrib sources

[Andre Massing]

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Dear Gmsh developer

We are very interested in packaging Gmsh for Fedora (and for its
relatives, enterprise linux based distros) and making
Gmsh easier accessible for a broader audience.

Since the Fedora packaging policy only allows to bundle 3rd party
libraries in exceptional cases, we would like to ask you a few
questions about the use and the origin of the sources resided in the
gmsh/contrib folder:
	
- -HighOrderMeshOptimizer

Is this an official, separate module of gmsh and if so, it is licensed
under the same license as gmsh? If the sources originate from other
3rd party code, could you point out where the original sources can be
obtained and whether they have been modified in the gmsh sources?

- -lbfgs from the ALGLIB project - http://www.alglib.net/
Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be used
in principal?

- - mmg3d,  MMG3D from
http://www.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/~cdobrzyn/logiciels/mmg3d.php

Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be used?

- - Salome
Are the sources in gmsh modified or could the original sources be used?

We would really appreciate if you could help us with clarifying the
use and origin of these sources in order to make a decision whether
bundling might be acceptible or a packaging of some of the original
sources might be a more adequate solution.

Kind regards,

Andre Massing and Alexey Vasyukov
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