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

[Ryan Abernathey]

Chris,

Are you proposing the WTFPL for MITgcm? I would be in favor--it seems like
an appropriately permissive license and in keeping with our general
disregard for the norms of polite behavior.

This article provides a very informative discussion of why a license is
important:
http://www.astrobetter.com/blog/2014/03/10/the-whys-and-hows-of-licensing-scientific-code/

Another good choice, and an obvious one, is the MIT license.
http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/

-Ryan

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Chris Hill <cnh at mit.edu> wrote:

>  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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