Installation of the METIS graph partitioning software within COIN.

METIS is software for Serial Graph Partitioning and Fill-reducing
Matrix Ordering

Please visit the home page:

http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview

Information about conditions w.r.t. distribution can be found at

http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/faq?q=metis/metis/faq#distribute

(I sent an email to the Metis developer, asking for clarification of
the Metis license.  You find the reply at the end of this file.)

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Note: It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to ensure that you are entitled to
      download and use this third party package.
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If you are working under Unix/Linux-like system and you have `wget'
installed, you can downloaded the required source code for METIS
by executing the included script `get.METIS' in this directory.

If you don't have wget available, follow those instructions:

Go to the METIS Download website

http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/download

and download the metis-4.0.tar.gz file.

Unpack it in this directory:

gunzip metis-4.0.tar.gz
tar xf metis-4.0.tar

Delete the tarball unless you want to keep it:

rm metis-4.0.tar

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Email exchange regarding Metis license:

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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:52:10 -0500
From: George Karypis <karypis@cs.umn.edu>
To: 'Andreas Waechter' <andreasw@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: Metis license conditions

Andreas,

Metis can be used for non-commercial projects without any restrictions.
For commercial-use, the essential restriction is for the vendors not to
be reselling Metis.

regards,

george

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Waechter [mailto:andreasw@watson.ibm.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:53 AM
To: metis@cs.umn.edu
Subject: Metis license conditions

Hello,

I'm maintaining an open-source project for nonlinear optimization (Ipopt 
at COIN-OR, see http://www.coin-or.org/Ipopt).  This project requires a 
linear solver, and I set up Makefiles for users who only have to download 
the sources (such as for MUMPS and MA57).  I recently added such a 
Makefile for Metis, since it improves the performance of the linear 
solvers (and therefore of Ipopt).

Of course, I do not distribute the sources for any third-party code, but I 
tell users how they can download the code and where they can learn more 
about the license conditions.  For Metis, I only found the last answer in 
the FAQs.

My colleague Anshul Gupta tells me that the license conditions for Metis 
are somewhat in flux.  However, could you please let me know what I can 
tell users regarding the Metis license?  I would add your answer (possibly 
verbatim) to the INSTALL.Metis file in

https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/browser/ThirdParty/Metis/trunk/INSTALL.Metis

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,

Andreas

Andreas Waechter
Department of Mathematical Sciences
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218 (Rt. 134)
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
USA

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