Re: compiling SuiteSparse

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 05/29/2012 11:35 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> I myself both a "non-profit institution" and "other organization"
> which (constantly) evaluates the SW for educational purposes. I.e. I
> am using Octave to educate myself.
>
> The license itself does not limit evaluation duration, and from time
> to time I switch to newer versions, so the evaluation period is
> significantly shorter than my life.

To me, 'evaluation' means

- a finite period of time where one ..
- systematically tries different features of a product, to ..
- determine whether such product is suitable for long-term use...
- and if so, make different arrangements for a such use.

Your method of evaluation doesn't seem to involve those steps. I am NOT 
raising that as an issue; it's entirely your business and I have no say 
in it. My point is that these problems, in my opinion, are caused by the 
strange and impractical METIS license. The GNU license causes no such 
problems, and that's why I prefer it greatly. I hope you might take 
another look at it and like it better.