[Dune] Question about Dune-alugrid license

[Christoph Grüninger]

Dear Christophe,
licensing is such a nice topic. Everybody has an opinion. Myself
included; I am not a lawyer.

> This will
> prevent us for using this module if I understand well.

It strongly depends on what you want to do. You have to explain how you
want to use Dune.

As far as I understood it:
1) You can do whatever you want, if you keep the software to yourself
within your institute.
2) You can publish your codes under whatever licence you want.
3) You have to be careful, when you share binaries. This includes
selling your software in a compiled version, offering binaries for
download or packaging RPMs / DEB packages which includes binaries.

If you do not 3), you can ignore GPL/LGPL/GPL+runtime-exception 1/2/3/+.

As a consequence of 3) Debian has no alugrid package and openSuse's
dune-grid package does not use the alugrid package.

So it depends on your use-case whether the differences in licensing are
relevant for you. In my perception most academic users choose to do not
distribute their code as binaries and are fine with that.

Bye
Christoph

-- 
Natürlich kann im Kapitalismus jeder reich werden.
Aber doch nicht alle!            -- Volker Pispers

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