/"But they're all licensed under the same LGPL license."/
Ah. I get it now. The library includes the tutorials as well, right? So LGPL
should apply everywhere.
Correct. Every tutorial file says that on line 8 :-)
This is confusing because the number of deal.ii based user programs are two
orders of magnitude larger than the number of code gallery programs. What is
the vetting process of submissions and acceptance to the code-gallery? Is this
documented somewhere?
Yes, there are many more programs out there. But not everyone wants to share
theirs. The procedure for contributing is documented if you hit the third of
the orange buttons on the page I linked to:
https://dealii.org/code-gallery.html
Is there a mechanism of linking an existing public github/gitlab/bitbucket
repo to the code gallery? That would be very useful since any time the authors
update their codes in github, the code gallery picks it up, and everyone can
benefit from the latest codes.
We don't have this kind of mechanism. But I think it's also the right thing to
do to freeze the status of these programs at a time of submission. Otherwise,
programs may work one day but not the next if you use someone's code you don't
know, and the documentation may not actually describe the code as it is.
/Copyright: You own what you wrote. We continue to own whatever we wrote in
your program (and grant you the right to use what we own as long as you stay
within the confines of the license).
/
/
/
So, at the top of my source code (licensed under LGPL), if I explicitly assert
my own copyright on a line of text, and below that just say "This program is
based on the step-xx tutorial of deal.II", will that be sufficient to cover
all the copyrights involved?
You're overthinking this. This is sufficient, but the point is that we *want*
you to use our codes.
All the information discussed so far in this question might be very helpful if
posted on the tutorial landing page in the deal.ii website. Anyone who is
looking to write code based on the tutorials can potentially benefit from this
info.
Like so many other pieces of information, it would be useful to state, but
there is no good place, and every place I can think of would distract from
lessons I think are far more important to teach at that place...
Best
W.
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