Re: slepc license

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

> Permission to distribute binary packages at least.  While you're asking,
> why not ask for it as free software?  Even one with an obnoxious ad
> clause (so they get their attribution) would be an improvement.
>
> Hope that helps,

That helps a lot. Thanks. I asked the upstream and they seem not to be
against using the old BSD license with the ad clause, so that maybe
the next version will be distributed with that license.

I realized, that 2.3.2 version that I am going to package at the
moment contains the license below, which is not free, but can go to
non-free. The problem above is only for the 2.3.3 version.

Ondrej

Copyright (c) 2002-2006, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

This  software is provided 'as is', with absolutely no warranty, expressed  or
implied.  Any use is at your own risk. In no event shall the authors be liable
for  any direct or indirect damages arising in any way out of the use of  this
software.

The  user will acknowledge (using references [1] or [2]) the  contribution  of
SLEPc  in any publication of material dependent upon the use of  the  package.
The  user  will reasonably endeavour to notify the authors of the  package  of
this publication.

The  user can modify the code but, at no time shall the right or title to  all
or  any  part  of  this  package pass to the user. Contributions  are  welcome
relating  to any alteration or addition made to this package for the  purposes
of  extending the capabilities or enhancing its performance.  Credit  will  be
given in the documentation for contributed code.

This  package (or a modified version) may not be sold. It is freely  available
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[1] V. Hernandez, J. E. Roman and V. Vidal (2005),
    SLEPc: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit for the Solution of
Eigenvalue Problems
    ACM Trans. Math. Softw. 31(3), 351-362.

[2] V. Hernandez, J. E. Roman and V. Vidal (2002),
    SLEPc Users Manual, Technical Report DSIC-II/24/02,
    Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.