[MITgcm-devel] [MITgcm-support] MITgcm license

[Ryan Abernathey]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis <dmenemenlis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> you are welcome to use the MITgcm free of charge, as long as you purchase
> a beer per successful compilation for MITgcm developers :-)
>

Clearly this has always been the de-facto license policy! 🍺🍺🍺

But really, is there nothing more official? I know many of the developers
are strong advocates of open source. It seems strange not to clearly
document the license of such a big project as MITgcm.


> (you would of course be included in the developers list and so would
> benefit from some of the beer!)
>
> On May 10, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Ryan Abernathey <ryan.abernathey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> What is the software license for MITgcm?
>
> I found at least three support emails asking the question
> http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2012-January/007613.html
> http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2009-November/006334.html
> http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2005-November/003591.html
>
> But no replies. Neither is there any license information in the source
> directory.
>
> Could someone please resolve this issue? I want to know the license
> information for a review paper I am involved with.
>
> Best,
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
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