[Libmesh-devel] GPL code in contrib/

[Jed B. <je...@je...>]

I notice that libHilbert is GPLv2+.  This is not apparent when running
configure, but if libHilbert is activated, the user's app must be
GPL-compatible.  I would suggest adding a license indicator in
./configure --help so that users know what they're agreeing to.


This also turns up a disturbing number of results beyond libHilbert, but
those projects claim to have more permissive licenses so presumably the
GPL-affected parts are not part of the resulting library:

$ git grep 'GNU General Public License'