Update license to LGPLv3

mom-ocean / MOM5

The Modular Ocean Model

https://mom-ocean.github.io/

GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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Update license to LGPLv3 #371

Closed aidanheerdegen closed 2 years ago

aidanheerdegen commented 2 years ago

As per https://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-3.0/ the GNU preferred method is to have two files, COPYING and COPYING.LESSER, as the LGPL is merely a modification of the GPL it requires a full copy of the GPL also be included.

License is detected by GitHub, though as LGPL-3.0 + GPL-3.0.

Closes #370

aidanheerdegen commented 2 years ago

If anyone else wants to be added as a reviewer to add their approval, happy to do so. Just didn't want to burden too many people.

aekiss commented 2 years ago

Seems fine to me, but I'm not expert. @micaeljtoliveira - what do you think?

aidanheerdegen commented 2 years ago

@StephenGriffies Would you mind officially approving this (changing the license to LGPLv3). Thanks.

StephenGriffies commented 2 years ago

Thanks to everyone working through these rather tedious issues.