Hi, Certainly, Siesta is not fully free, I guess in a healthy environment, it is not fair that someone make some profit using tools that belongs to others!
but for academic researches, we can have access to this and other codes for free, promoting the generation of new knowledge! and because of that I am completely grateful! Thanks for your comments, Eduardo ________________________________ De: CROCOMBETTE Jean-Paul 148490 <[email protected]> Para: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> CC: Eduardo Gracia <[email protected]> Enviado: Martes, 13 de noviembre, 2012 8:59:11 Asunto: RE : [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? Hi, I have been working with Siesta for years and I like it very much. Siesta is a very good code. But, siesta is not free. Commercial and non academic institutions cannot download it freely (see http://icmab.cat/leem/siesta/CodeAccess/selector.html). Technically Siesta does not comply with the Free Sofware Foundation principles. I am not complaining or discussing this choice of the developpers, just precising things a little bit. Jean-Paul ________________________________________ De : [email protected] [[email protected]] de la part de R.C.Pasianot [[email protected]] Date d'envoi : lundi 12 novembre 2012 17:25 À : [email protected] Cc : Eduardo Gracia Objet : Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? Hi, If you need to find good reasons for free software, just point your navigator to the Free Software Foundation website. Siesta is just a very small piece of that philosophy. R. On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Oswaldo Dieguez wrote: > Because the best things in life are free... > > Oswaldo > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Eduardo Gracia" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:35:16 AM >> Subject: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? >> Hi everyone >> >> >> I've been working with Siesta and other codes since my PhD, now I >> recently start working in a full experimental research team. They >> asked me which software I use, and as expected, they didn’t know about >> Siesta and other codes such as Abinit, lammps (mainly free codes), >> etc. >> >> >> Then and interesting question comes, If these codes are good, why are >> they free (for academic purpose)? >> >> >> >> Personally, I didn’t ask that before, since for me it has been quiet >> natural that Siesta and other available codes are free, and we can >> also find support, new version, bug fixes, etc. >> >> >> So, right now I'm asking the same question to the developing team, >> Why Siesta is free? >> >> >> Regards >> Eduardo
