Re: MPI (was Re: BIG libraries with self-compiled version)

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Sep-2005, Fredrik Lingvall wrote:

| You have to register to see the license text. You can use it freely for 
| academic, research, experimental or personal use but it is not open 
| source. I've cut out the text from their web-page below.

Then we should not this can't be used as a part of Octave, since the
license is not compatible with the GPL.

I don't think we should encourage its use since it is not free sofware.

jwe



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