[CP2K:4919] CP2K - new version release - 2.4

[stephen.s... at googlemail.com]

Thanks for the information Teo, 
 
I have emailed Juerg with our request.
 
Kind regards
 
Stephen Davies

On Friday, January 24, 2014 4:15:54 PM UTC, Teo wrote:

> Stephen,
>
> you can contact Juerg Hutter for such requests. He is the project leader.
>
> In any case, cp2k is released under GPL and there is no fee charged 
> whatsoever (this means companies, universities and govs can download it for 
> free).
>
> You are allowed to sell copies or the even the usage of the program 
> commercially, *but only under the terms of the GNU GPL*. 
> Thus, for instance, you must make the source code available to the users 
> of the program as described in the GPL, and they must be allowed to 
> redistribute and modify it as described in the GPL. It’s up to them whether 
> they are willing to pay something to you for a software that they can 
> freely access.
>
> Having said that there is no permission that you need to ask, neither for 
> selling them time on your machines (this is pretty obvious) nor for selling 
> them the usage or even (potentially) the code itself.
>
> Teo
>
>
> On 24 Jan 2014, at 16:40, stephen.s... at googlemail.com wrote:
>
> Hi
>  
> I work for High Performance Computing Wales and we need to request the 
> developer's permission to use CP2K for
> a variety of uses such as assisting commercial companies on a 'no fee' 
> basis (our organisation is grant funded), using the CP2K licence on a fee 
> basis i.e. in the event we charge a company a commercial rate to use our 
> machines and the licence.
>  
> Can anyone provide me with the a developer contact who is authorised to 
> provide permission?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Stephen   
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>
> On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:32:12 PM UTC+1, jgh wrote:
>
>> Hi 
>>
>> I was in contact with Stefan Goedecker and we agreed on changing 
>> the license header for the FFT routines to: 
>>
>>
>> !-----------------------------------------------------------------------------!
>>  
>> !  Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 1, 1991 
>> !  Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 1994 
>> !  Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, MPI Stuttgart, Germany, 1999 
>> !  This file is distributed under the terms of the 
>> !  GNU General Public License, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt . 
>>
>> !-----------------------------------------------------------------------------!
>>  
>> !  S. Goedecker: Rotating a three-dimensional array in optimal 
>> !  positions for vector processing: Case study for a three-dimensional 
>> Fast 
>> !  Fourier Transform, Comp. Phys. Commun. 76, 294 (1993) 
>> ! 
>> *****************************************************************************
>>  
>>
>> regards 
>>
>> Juerg 
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> Juerg Hutter                         Phone : ++41 44 635 4491 
>> Physical Chemistry Institute   FAX   : ++41 44 635 6838 
>> University of Zurich               E-mail:  hut... at pci.uzh.ch 
>> Winterthurerstrasse 190 
>> CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> -----cp... at googlegroups.com wrote: ----- 
>> To: cp... at googlegroups.com 
>> From: Michael Banck 
>> Sent by: cp... at googlegroups.com 
>> Date: 06/25/2013 10:50AM 
>> Subject: Re: [CP2K:4471] CP2K - new version release - 2.4 
>>
>> Hello, 
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:22:57PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 
>> wrote: 
>> > One more thing: could you add a licence header to all source files? 
>> > Some of the files have statements suggesting they're not licenced under
>>  
>> > the GPLv2+. 
>> > 
>> > These files: 
>> > 
>> > src/fft_lib/ctrig.F 
>> > src/fft_lib/fftpre.F 
>> > src/fft_lib/ffttrot.F 
>> > src/fft_lib/fftstp.F 
>> > 
>> > have this statement: 
>> > 
>> > ! Commercial use is prohibited 
>> > ! without the explicit permission of the author. 
>> > 
>> > Actually, the contain only a copyright statement and no explicit 
>> > permission to distribute (modified) versions of the file. I'd say 
>> > this makes cp2k non-free, so please change those statements to state 
>> > they're covered by GPLv2+ and preferably add a licence header to each 
>> > source file to avoid any doubts. 
>>
>> Looking at http://comphys.unibas.ch/SOFTWARE/FFT/fft3d.f90 and the 
>> BigDFT code at [1], it seems S. Goedecker has GPL-licensed (v2 or later) 
>> that code later on. 
>>
>> So I guess it would be, for all practical purposes, fine to just add the 
>> regular copyright boilerplate and the CP2K copyright, removing the 
>> "Commercial use is prohibited without the explicit permission of the 
>> author." part, but keeping his copyright line. 
>>
>>
>> Best Regards, 
>>
>> Michael 
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bigdft-developers/bigdft/master/view/head:/src/lib/fft/fft3d.f90
>>  
>>
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