Dear Alberto, Is this retroactive? I.e., do we still protect older SIESTA versions, asking users to agree to the old Academic access licenses?
-- Grigory Shamov Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead University of Manitoba E2-588 EITC Building, (204) 474-9625 On 16-05-13 7:54 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Alberto Garcia" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >The SIESTA developers have decided to change the licensing conditions for >the code. From now on, SIESTA will be released under the GPL open-source >license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License). > >In the past SIESTA had always been free for academic use, but >re-distribution was not permitted. It is expected that the move to an >open-source license will be beneficial for the SIESTA project and its >large user community. On the one hand, the program will be able to >incorporate functionality already existing in other GPL codes. On the >other, the barrier for contributors will be lowered, as new developments >will be more easily re-distributed. > >Development and distribution of the program is now centralized at the >Launchpad platform: > > http://launchpad.net/siesta > >Users can download tarballs of released versions, as well as clone the >source branches of the appropriate series directly. Prospective >contributors are encouraged to become familiar with the Launchpad >workflow and to read the specific documentation that is being prepared >for Siesta development. > >The current stable series is '4.0', which is in advanced beta stage. >Users are encouraged to download it and use it for production runs. > >
