[Bug 464432] Review Request: octopus - a TDDFT code

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--- Comment #12 from Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rpm at greysector.net>  2008-10-13 07:37:25 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Upstream replies:
> 
> "It turns out that one of the octopus developers (Xavier Andrade) has
> decided to try to remove METIS, substituting it by a free alternative
> (ZOLTAN). We also removed expokit, and as I said qshep is also
> non-essential. So it may very well be that next release of octopus
> (unknown date) will be free of license problems."

That's encouraging.

> Until a license problem free version is available, octopus cannot be packaged.

Or you could try backporting whatever changes they made to remove the non-free
code, but that's up to you.

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