Re: compiling SuiteSparse

[Sergei Steshenko]

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> From: Przemek Klosowski <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: compiling SuiteSparse
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> On 05/27/2012 04:24 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> 
>>  And I am especially glad and proud that successful compilation and
>>  linking against 'metis' is yet another victory of me and hopefully
>>  other people and pragmatism over the stupid GPL propaganda. And I've
>>  been building with 'metis' for years.
> 
> Sergei, do not throw stones if you live in glass houses. IANAL, but my 
> personal 
> understanding of METIS license is that you can only use it freely if you are 
> an 
> educational institution or US government agency, and even then only for 
> limited, 
> non-commercial purposes. Do you satisify their restrictions?
> 
> Note that this doesn't even touch redistribution--these are just basic usage 
> conditions.
> 
> So, which license has un-pragmatic and stupid conditions, again?
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Here is the license text:

"
The 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 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.
"

Do you see "Other organizations" ? They are other than "non-profit institutions 
and US government agencies".

I myself both a "non-profit institution" and "other organization" which 
(constantly) evaluates the SW for educational purposes. I.e. I am using Octave 
to educate myself.

The license itself does not limit evaluation duration, and from time to time I 
switch to newer versions, so the evaluation period is significantly shorter 
than my life.

Regards,
  Sergei.