Dear All I agree, I have no problem with NMRBox using the code as long as they maintain the GPL license, and stick to its terms. Of course if they improve the code they should be encouraged to provide it to us in a simple manner (I guess they could maintain branches on GNA.org if they would be happy with that).
regards gary gary thompson garyt.and.sar...@gmail.com > On 13 Apr 2016, at 09:19, Edward d'Auvergne <edw...@nmr-relax.com> wrote: > > On 29 March 2016 at 21:51, The NMRbox Team <ad...@nmrbox.org> wrote: >> Dear Edward: >> >> You have developed software that we would like to include in NMRbox, a >> resource developed by the NIH-supported National Center for Biomolecular NMR >> Data Processing and Analysis. You can learn more about our Center and the >> benefits that accrue to developers in the attached shameless promotional >> documents. >> >> We believe the following software of yours is free to redistribute. We are >> contacting you as a courtesy and, unless we hear otherwise, we plan to >> redistribute this software in NMRbox. >> >> relax >> >> Shortly you will receive a second email from "ad...@nmrbox.org" with a >> simple license agreement giving us permission to redistribute your software. >> By replying to the forthcoming email in the affirmative (a simple "I agree" >> will suffice), we will include your software in NMRbox. If, however, your >> software requires a more restrictive license, please reply to this email so >> that we can discuss special terms or restrictions. >> >> Additionally, please let us know if we have failed to list software from >> your lab that you would like to have included in NMRbox. >> >> Many thanks for your support for this initiative. >> >> Gratefully, >> >> The NMRbox Team > > Dear NMRbox team, > > Sorry for not contacting you earlier, I have only just returned from > holidays. The software relax is distributed solely under the terms of > the GNU GPL v3 licence. A number of other NMR softwares use this > licence as well. relax is an open source project and the copyright is > owned by a number of NMR spectroscopists - I am not the sole copyright > holder and cannot speak on their behalf. Therefore I will cross-post > this to the relax development mailing list for the benefit of the > other IP holders. Note that this is publicly archived and permanently > accessible. Please use this list for future correspondence. > > I would advise you to study the GPL licence to understand your > obligations in distributing relax, as well as any other GPL software. > Note that "a simple license agreement giving us permission to > redistribute your software" is illegal under this licence. The GPL is > the one and only licence determining how you can distribute relax. > With this licence, you simply need to provide all of the source code > of your distributed copy, including all modifications you make to > tailor it to the NMRbox distribution. So, for example, you cannot > just provide byte-compiled *.pyc and *.so C modules - you need to also > provide access to the source *.py, *.c and other files. If more > information is required for understanding how to redistribute > GPL-licensed software, I would refer you to the following in-depth > guide from the Software Freedom Law Center: > > https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html > > Regards, > > Edward > > _______________________________________________ > relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com) > > This is the relax-devel mailing list > relax-devel@gna.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, get a password > reminder, or change your subscription options, > visit the list information page at > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-devel _______________________________________________ relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-devel mailing list relax-devel@gna.org To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-devel
