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Subject: Re: [PLPA users] libtopology
From: Chris Samuel (csamuel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-25 20:28:33


----- "Brice Goglin" <Brice.Goglin_at_[hidden]> wrote:

Hi Brice,

> 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?

That's my understanding, yes.

> Out of curiosity, who's combining/distributing OMPI
> like this?

A quick search shows Debian/Ubuntu ship parallel
versions of Gromacs (GPL) built against OMPI (as
well as LAM and MPICH), so there's one example.

I believe Fedora also packages it and it's also
packaged in the EPEL repository of Fedora packages
for RHEL/CentOS. I believe those gromacs-mpi RPMs
are only built against OMPI.

cheers,
Chirs

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