<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Stephen,</div><div><br></div><div>you can contact Juerg Hutter for such requests. He is the project leader.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>You are allowed to sell copies or the even the usage of the program commercially, <u>but only under the terms of the GNU GPL</u>. </div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Teo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On 24 Jan 2014, at 16:40, <a href="mailto:stephen.s...@googlemail.com">stephen.s...@googlemail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi</div><div> </div><div>I work for High Performance Computing Wales and we need to request the developer's permission to use CP2K for</div><div>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.</div><div> </div><div>Can anyone provide me with the a developer contact who is authorised to provide permission?</div><div> </div><div>Thanks</div><div> </div><div>Stephen </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br>On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:32:12 PM UTC+1, jgh wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;">Hi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I was in contact with Stefan Goedecker and we agreed on changing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>the license header for the FFT routines to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>!-----------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 1, 1991<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 1994<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, MPI Stuttgart, Germany, 1999<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! This file is distributed under the terms of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! GNU General Public License, see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/<wbr>gpl.txt</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>!-----------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! S. Goedecker: Rotating a three-dimensional array in optimal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! positions for vector processing: Case study for a three-dimensional Fast<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! Fourier Transform, Comp. Phys. Commun. 76, 294 (1993)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>! ******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>*****************<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>regards<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Juerg<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Juerg Hutter Phone : ++41 44 635 4491<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Physical Chemistry Institute FAX : ++41 44 635 6838<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>University of Zurich E-mail: <a target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">hut...@</a><a href="http://pci.uzh.ch/">pci.uzh.ch</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Winterthurerstrasse 190<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>-----<a target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@</a><a href="http://googlegroups.com/">googlegroups.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote: -----<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@</a><a href="http://googlegroups.com/">googlegroups.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>From: Michael Banck<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Sent by:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@</a><a href="http://googlegroups.com/">googlegroups.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Date: 06/25/2013 10:50AM<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Subject: Re: [CP2K:4471] CP2K - new version release - 2.4<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Hello,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:22:57PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> One more thing: could you add a licence header to all source files?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Some of the files have statements suggesting they're not licenced under<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> the GPLv2+.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> These files:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> src/fft_lib/ctrig.F<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> src/fft_lib/fftpre.F<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> src/fft_lib/ffttrot.F<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> src/fft_lib/fftstp.F<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> have this statement:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> ! Commercial use is prohibited<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> ! without the explicit permission of the author.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Actually, the contain only a copyright statement and no explicit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> permission to distribute (modified) versions of the file. I'd say<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> this makes cp2k non-free, so please change those statements to state<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> they're covered by GPLv2+ and preferably add a licence header to each<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> source file to avoid any doubts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Looking at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://comphys.unibas.ch/SOFTWARE/FFT/fft3d.f90" target="_blank">http://comphys.unibas.ch/<wbr>SOFTWARE/FFT/fft3d.f90</a> and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>BigDFT code at [1], it seems S. Goedecker has GPL-licensed (v2 or later)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>that code later on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>So I guess it would be, for all practical purposes, fine to just add the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>regular copyright boilerplate and the CP2K copyright, removing the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>"Commercial use is prohibited without the explicit permission of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>author." part, but keeping his copyright line.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br>Best Regards,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Michael<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>[1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bigdft-developers/bigdft/master/view/head:/src/lib/fft/fft3d.f90" target="_blank">http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~<wbr>bigdft-developers/bigdft/<wbr>master/view/head:/src/lib/fft/<wbr>fft3d.f90</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cp2k" group.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp2k+uns...@</a><a href="http://googlegroups.com/">googlegroups.</a><wbr><a href="http://googlegroups.com/">com</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>To post to this group, send email to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@</a><a href="http://googlegroups.com/">googlegroups.com</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Visit this group at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/cp2k" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/<wbr>group/cp2k</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>For more options, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/<wbr>groups/opt_out</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cp2k" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:cp2k+uns...@googlegroups.com">cp2k+uns...@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:cp...@googlegroups.com">cp...@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>Visit this group at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/cp2k">http://groups.google.com/group/cp2k</a>.<br>For more options, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out">https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out</a>.</div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>