oomph-lib
is "open source" software and may therefore be freely downloaded and distributed – the full details are given below. To facilitate the installation of the library, the oomph-lib
distribution includes (parts of) certain other open source libraries (SuperLU, METIS and BLAS). Redistribution of these libraries with oomph-lib
has been approved by their authors – we suggest you get in touch with them if you wish to re-distribute their libraries yet again.
oomph-lib's
licencing termsThis library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation ; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
Your use or distribution of oomph-lib
or any derivative code implies that you agree to this License.
Copyright (C) 2006-2025 by Matthias Heil and Andrew L. Hazel.
oomph-lib
provides the option to install various third-party libraries as part of its overall build process. These are:
Our build scripts download the relevant source automatically from the relevant GitHub repositories where the libraries' licencing information can be found.
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