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

[Ryan Abernathey]

This would be the default license if no license is provided:
http://choosealicense.com/no-license/

"...nobody else may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from
your work."

I'm pretty sure this is not what we want. Many of our practices are already
in violation of it. The owner of MITgcm (whoever that is) would have the
right to sue anyone who downloads and uses the source code for copyright
infringement!

-Ryan

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Ryan Abernathey <ryan.abernathey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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