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SELEN: a program for solving the "Sea Level Equation".
https://geodynamics.org/resources/selen
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Manual describes GMT as Public Domain which is no longer true #3

Closed tjesser-ucdavis-edu closed 8 years ago

tjesser-ucdavis-edu commented 8 years ago

Right now, the manual mentions in multiple places that GMT is public domain. (Github search) However, the GMT webpage lists the license as LGPL3+.

From what I was able to find, GMT versions 1 and 2 were indeed Public Domain. Source: https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/papers/1991/EOS_91/eos_91.html

But the website archives show that version 3 and 4 were under the GPL 2 or 3. Source: ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/legacy/

I'm not entirely sure how to handle mentioning GMT licensing. I guess it would depend on which versions are supported for compiling against. As it is, though, the manual cannot be considered correct.

danielemelini commented 8 years ago

Fixed in release 2.9.12