Dear Edward, Indeed, the maple code was initially written by Nikolai in 2000 or 2001 and as far as I remember be debugged it together, so my contribution is minor.
However, I am glad to state: "I agree to licence my contributions to the code in the file https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404 attached to https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, version three or higher. My copyright covers the years 2000-2001." Best, Martin ……….. Dr. Martin Tollinger Center of Molecular Biosciences (CMBI) & Institute of Organic Chemistry LFU University of Innsbruck, Austria http://tollinger.spinrelax.at<http://tollinger.spinrelax.at/> On Jul 29, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Edward d'Auvergne <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Martin and Nikolai, I'm sorry I didn't contact you earlier. I have only recently realised that you may own the copyright on code which has recently been incorporated into the program relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com). This is the Python code from Paul Schanda, Mathilde Lescanne, and Dominique Marion which appears to have its origins in Matlab code you developed back in 2005 and earlier. I have described in full detail how relax uses this code in a public mailing list message to Nikolai at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.devel/4268/focus=4270 I was wondering if you would be able to detail the origins and history of your code? For relax to be able to legally incorporate the code, a copyright licence from all authors is required (as well as which years the code was developed, for the copyright notice). relax is an open source software project which relies on the GPLv3+ licence (the GNU General Public Licence). You can see an example of the copyright notice at the top of this file: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/ns_2site_expanded.py?revision=20464&content-type=text%2Fplain&pathrev=20478 Some of the contents of that file might be familiar. As long as you are ok with this, I would like to have your permission to use this code. It requires a statement to one of the relax public mailing lists, such as this one, similar to: "I agree to licence my contributions to the code in the file https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404 attached to https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, version three or higher. My copyright covers the years 200?-2005." I would assume that your are familiar with the Matlab contents of that sim_all.tar file. For reference, the GPL licence is explained in detail at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. The copyright licence allows the code to be used in relax for ever - the GPL licence to the code in relax can never be revoked. But you own the copyright to your code - it is not a copyright transfer. So you are free license your code as you wish in the future, or to do as you like with it. But you cannot re-license the code that is located within relax or revoke the licence. This is the standard protection for open source projects. If you are happy with this, then please respond to this message with text similar to the above statement (it can be copied and modified). This will allow the code to remain in relax and allow Paul and Dominique to expand on their changes and improvements to your code within relax for their own benefit. It also allows other relax developers to expand on the code. I will then add your names with the dates to the copyright notices in the relevant files in relax. You might be able to identify your code in the files at http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/?pathrev=20478. You are also free to give suggestions as to how you should be acknowledged in the relax user manual (temporarily at http://download.gna.org/relax/manual/relax_disp_manual.pdf). If you do not agree, I can remove all of the affected code from relax. Thank you, Edward On 29 July 2013 11:46, Paul Schanda <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Edward, I am willing to licence the contents of the sim_all.tar file (located at https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404) and attached to the task https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, version three or higher. The code was originally set up in Matlab format by Martin Tollinger and Nikolai Skrynnikov. Nikolai has just recently sent a message where he authorizes that the code (based on his Matlab code) gets released. Martin will do so very soon, too, as he told me. I believe that the modifications that I did on the code date back to 2010-2013, so these are the years to be written in the copyright section. Martin and Nikolai had set up the code earlier, and as the file dates are 2005, this is presumably the date where the code was written. They will give you more precise information about the dates. Paul On 29.07.13 09:20, Edward d'Auvergne wrote: Hi Paul, I would like to incorporate the numeric and Trott & Palmer R1rho models from your code in the sim_all.tar file. But for this to be legally possible, you need to release your code under an appropriate licence. You permanently own the copyright on this Matlab code but, for it to be used in relax, you must say that you release the code under the GPLv3+ licence. And you need to give the years you developed the code. You could do this by responding to this email, making sure it goes to the mailing list. An email to a archived public mailing list is a sufficient legal instrument. You need to say that you are willing to licence the contents of the sim_all.tar file (located at https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404) and attached to the task https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, version three or higher. You must also give the dates that your copyrights are for. I can see that the date on all files is 2005, but you may have started this a few years before that date. You can copy and paste some of this message for your email. Cheers, Edward -- Paul Schanda, Ph.D. Biomolecular NMR group Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel (IBS) 41, rue Jules Horowitz F-38027 Grenoble France +33 438 78 95 55 [email protected] http://www.ibs.fr/groups/biomolecular-nmr-spectroscopy?lang=en
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