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Clarifying METIS copyright

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Hi James[*] and all,

OK. I see that a more elaborate permission is required. I hadn't included the
mails because they were private conversation. I have attached these mails 
however in this mail.

I've just seen that in these mails I do tell him that the permission is
requested on behalf of Debian GNU/Linux to just distribute it and I do tell
him that it reaches a lot of developers worldwide. He responds affirmatively.

If you think including these mails is satisfactory I will do so, otherwise I
will have to ask the upstream for a public and clear permission answering all
the issues you point out. That is,
  1) Debian is not an application
  2) It will be redistributed on all debian mirrors
  3) They have given permission to do that

I have already drafted such a message but I hesitate to send it because the 
author is a very busy researcher and it might take a long time before we 
receive a reply.

Comments welcome,

Thanks,

[*] Sorry if you've received this mail twice.

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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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Dear Sir,

I am an Msc. student at Bilkent University CS Department. We have been
regularly using metis for our work here and we are grateful for the excellent
software package that you have written.

It is quite likely that I will be using metis/parmetis for my Msc. thesis
and I would like to ask for your permission to distribute metis in
a larger distribution.

I am a contributor to Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) and I would like to
make packages for METIS, hMETIS and ParMETIS. It seems clear that a non-free
license (by our definition of what is free software, GPL, BSD-like
licenses and Artistic are examples of the kinds of software that we
consider free) is implied. However, for metis it would be perfectly
satisfactory for the package to be just distributable along with Debian. Since
Debian reaches a lot of developers worldwide, it would be promoting use of
METIS and at the same time a most significant addition to Debian.

Of course, we would be very happy if you would provide the source code
under a free software license. However, considering the current case I request
your permission for Debian to distribute the source code and the binaries
of METIS family of programs. I will certainly include your notes about
re-distribution of METIS (as mentioned in the FAQ) in the Debian packages. 

Regards,

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Eray Ozkural (exa)
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

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Eray,

Please go ahead and distribute Metis. Sorry for not replying on your 
earlier email, it was in my "todo" list.

George

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From: exa [mailto:exa]On Behalf Of Eray Ozkural (exa)
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:01 PM
To: karypis@cs.umn.edu
Subject: [Fwd: METIS License]


Dear Sir,

I am a graduate student supervised by Cevdet Aykanat of Bilkent
University CS Department. I had asked for permission to distribute
METIS on behalf of Debian Project. I've already prepared the
packages which you may inspect at URI
http://borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~exa/debian/

The packages are to be distributed in the non-free section of
Debian GNU/Linux for several architectures. In addition to
packaging of the binaries, library, headers, documentation and
examples I've also provided manual pages for the executables.

The original message to metis@cs.umn.edu is attached.

Regards,

-- 
Eray Ozkural (exa)
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

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