The following is a good explanation of what the 3-clause BSD license allows / requires.
https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-software-licenses-101-bsd-3-clause-license/ So, yes, I think you need to include the original license, and make it clear in individual files that they are, or are derived from files that are, distributed under that license. Note, that it does not require that other files distributed with it, written entirely by you, be licensed in the same way. — Ray On Jun 1, 2022, at 12:59 PM, Abdelrahman Aldik <aal...@ryerson.ca<mailto:aal...@ryerson.ca>> wrote: Thank you Dr.Zimmerman Just so I can be sure that I understood what you have shared with me, I need to include the BSD license within the files of my project so I would be legally allowed to use parts of the Matpower library? Regards Abdelrahman On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 1:45 PM Ray Daniel Zimmerman <r...@cornell.edu<mailto:r...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Yes, the BSD license<https://github.com/MATPOWER/matpower/blob/master/LICENSE> used by MATPOWER explicitly allows use and redistribution of the code as long as you meet the 3 conditions it lists. Regarding citing, please see https://matpower.org/citing/ for general information on citing MATPOWER, including software and manuals. For contributed code found in extras, please check the documentation for the particular package for any additional notes about citing it. Ray On Jun 1, 2022, at 12:10 PM, Abdelrahman Aldik <aal...@ryerson.ca<mailto:aal...@ryerson.ca>> wrote: Dears I'm developing a code for a research project of mine and have used a code that was included in the Matpower set of m.files codes (The code was taken from the extras codes). Am I allowed to use that code as part of my project and how should I cite it? Regards -- Abdelrahman Aldik PhD Candidate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre of Urban Energy Toronto Metropolitan University CUI-030, 44 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada Email: aal...@ryerson.ca<mailto:aal...@ryerson.ca> -- Abdelrahman Aldik PhD Candidate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre of Urban Energy Toronto Metropolitan University CUI-030, 44 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada Email: aal...@ryerson.ca<mailto:aal...@ryerson.ca>
