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

[Chris Hill]

 There is an interesting thread on this topic here

  http://www.wtfpl.net/about/
 and here
  http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/


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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