On Jul 25, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Brice Goglin wrote:
> I will raise the issue to our local legal people. They pushed for
> CeCILL-B as most French research institutes do (CeCILL* licenses have
> been designed to be totally ok wrt the French legislation). But if
> BSD-3
> helps here, we will look at relicensing.
>
Thanks.
> So, the actual problem would be that OMPI could not be
> combined/distributed together with another GPL project if OMPI shipped
> its own included libtopology? Out of curiosity, who's
> combining/distributing OMPI like this?
>
Just to be clear -- my question was about PLPA, not OMPI. But OMPI is
one of PLPA's biggest customers, so the question is relevant. :-) It
certainly would be convenient to bundle libtopology inside OMPI rather
than relying on it already being installed. We have used this
argument before with other "key" OMPI libraries -- such as libltdl,
libevent, etc. That's one of the reasons we went through the trouble
of making PLPA embed-able.
FYI: OMPI and PLPA use the same license:
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/license.php
--
Jeff Squyres
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