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Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri May 27 16:09:43 UTC 2011


Jerry James wrote:
> Given the usage restrictions on nauty (cannot redistribute for profit,
> cannot use in any application with nontrivial military significance),
> we can't have that in Fedora, can we?

Indeed, I'm fairly sure that this is non-Free. (Tom "spot" Callaway can 
probably confirm that.)

> If you've worked out some kind of unrestricted license with the nauty
> author, please let me know.  He hasn't been responding to my emails.
> Even in that case, this should go into a separate nauty package, not
> into Macaulay2, no?

Indeed, this has no business being bundled into Macaulay2, which comes from 
a separate upstream.

        Kevin Kofler



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