Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Microsoft MPI for MinGW-w64

[Adrien N. <ad...@no...>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013, Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
> 2013/12/11 Adrien Nader <ad...@no...>
> 
> > HI,
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013, Alexander Shukaev wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'd like to share something with the project. I had to do some MPI-based
> > > development on Windows lately. Since both MPICH and OpenMPI are
> > officially
> > > discontinued for Windows, the only alternative is to use Microsoft MPI
> > from
> > > HPC redistributable package. As usual, it comes only for MSVC. I've
> > > prepared ready to use distributions of latest Microsoft MPI from HPC
> > > redistributable package 2012 with Service Pack 1 specifically for
> > > MinGW-w64, for both x86 and x64 architectures. Here is the link to
> > > repository <https://bitbucket.org/Haroogan/microsoft-mpi>. If you
> > consider
> > > that useful, you could add it to the front page instead of `MSMPI` link
> > or
> > > as a separate link.
> >
> > I've added a link on the webpage. I have a couple questions however:
> > - are you sure you are allowed to modify the package from microsoft?
> >
> 
> The licenses are all BSD or some "do what you wish as long as you retain
> the copyright notice" stuff

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013, Alexander Shukaev wrote:
> Yes, the link you provided is very close to what was done. So essentially,
> nothing serious, just a few modifications in a header file, so that it's
> compatible with both MSVC and GCC. I guess it is perfectly fine to do that.
> I've never released it by my name or stole anybody's rights. All I did -
> prepackaged unzip-and-roll distributions for different compilers. All the
> licenses which came with it are included as well.

OK. Thanks to both of you; I didn't have the time to check in details
when doing the update and assumed a "default" restrictive license.

-- 
Adrien Nader