[Mingw-cross-env-list] Licence of included packages

[Tony Theodore]

Hi Volker,

I was looking at metis/suitesparse support and somehow noticed that
metis 4 doesn't have a licence. The website [1] makes a distinction
for commercial use, and mentions "freely distributed" along with
"permission .... must be obtained". The licence in version 5 [2] is
similar, but also covers use.

How does this relate to mingw-cross-env? I'd probably err on the side
of caution and say that without a licence (version 4) it can't be
included. Given that we don't distribute it, and basically just
"evaluate" if it builds; would version 5 be safe to include?

Or do we just make it simple and only include DFSG/OSI packages?

Cheers,

Tony



[1] http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/faq#distribute

[2] metis-5.0pre2/LICENSE

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