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team-ocean / veros

The versatile ocean simulator, in pure Python, powered by JAX.
https://veros.readthedocs.io
MIT License
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inconsistent licence #41

Closed mvhulten closed 6 years ago

mvhulten commented 6 years ago

The licence stated in the discussion paper is GPL. The licence file in the repository is MIT. If you want the code for instance to be licensed under GPL>=3.0, the LICENSE file should be replaced, and it is best to be precise in the paper, e.g. "... code is available under the GNU General Public License version 3.0, or, at your option, any higher version."

By the way, it is fantastic that this code is developed and shared (as free software)—an important contribution to ocean modelling and oceanography!

dionhaefner commented 6 years ago

I chose to re-license Veros under MIT from v0.1.1 onward. v0.1.0, the version described in the paper, was licensed under GPL. I agree that I should have been more precise in the paper, thanks for pointing that out.

By the way, it is fantastic that this code is developed and shared (as free software)—an important contribution to ocean modelling and oceanography!

Thank you :)

mvhulten commented 6 years ago

Ah yes, I see! That will be a simple change in the paper then (assuming the final paper will describe Veros>=v0.1.1, otherwise you could leave that as is).

I just learnt something about the naming of the X11/MIT licence. You can of course decide if it is important enough. Most important considering the distribution, in my opinion, is that the program is free software, and second most important that it is GPL compatible.