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joshlvmh / iqtree_arm_neon

IQ-TREE ported to work for systems with ARM NEON ISA
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Clarify the license terms #3

Closed jserv closed 4 years ago

jserv commented 4 years ago

This project states the license terms as following:

Copyright (C) 2020 Joshua Measure-Hughes Written for the Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of Bristol. Licensed under the MIT License, (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

I assume that this project was derived from IQ-TREE, which is licensed under GNU GPL. It makes me a bit confused that the derived work from a GPL'd work should remain the same license terms according to GNU GPL. Can you clarify this?

joshlvmh commented 4 years ago

Thank you for pointing this out, I realised I did not put in a note saying the license only applied to unique additions/files rather than modifications. I will add that now.

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This project states the license terms as following:

Copyright (C) 2020 Joshua Measure-Hughes Written for the Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of Bristol. Licensed under the MIT License, (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

I assume that this project was derived from IQ-TREEhttps://github.com/Cibiv/IQ-TREE, which is licensed under GNU GPL. It makes me a bit confused that the derived work from a GPL'd work should remain the same license terms according to GNU GPL. Can you clarify this?

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jserv commented 4 years ago

Thank you for pointing this out, I realised I did not put in a note saying the license only applied to unique additions/files rather than modifications. I will add that now.

As the maintainer of sse2neon, I would like to mention your effort on Arm NEON port of IQ-TREE as the adoption case. However, I was hesitant because of uncertain license terms here. Good to hear the further clarification.

joshlvmh commented 4 years ago

Thank you, please do let me know if there is anything else. I have been meaning to contact the sse2neon team to make them aware of my additions, so you beat me to it!

jserv commented 4 years ago

Got it. I have read the updated README.md and understood.