<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 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;" class="gmail_quote">Hi <br> <br>I was in contact with Stefan Goedecker and we agreed on changing <br>the license header for the FFT routines to: <br> <br>!-----------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------! <br>! Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 1, 1991 <br>! Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 1994 <br>! Copyright (C) Stefan Goedecker, MPI Stuttgart, Germany, 1999 <br>! This file is distributed under the terms of the <br>! GNU General Public License, see <a onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fcopyleft%2Fgpl.txt\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNFkCS437rHopcf7SNzpTLkLyiPy3A';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fcopyleft%2Fgpl.txt\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNFkCS437rHopcf7SNzpTLkLyiPy3A';return true;" href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/<wbr>gpl.txt</a> . <br>!-----------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------! <br>! S. Goedecker: Rotating a three-dimensional array in optimal <br>! positions for vector processing: Case study for a three-dimensional Fast <br>! Fourier Transform, Comp. Phys. Commun. 76, 294 (1993) <br>! ******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>***************** <br> <br>regards <br> <br>Juerg <br> <br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>-- <br>Juerg Hutter Phone : ++41 44 635 4491 <br>Physical Chemistry Institute FAX : ++41 44 635 6838 <br>University of Zurich E-mail: <a onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;" href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">hut...@pci.uzh.ch</a> <br>Winterthurerstrasse 190 <br>CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland <br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--- <br> <br>-----<a onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;" href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@googlegroups.com</a> wrote: ----- <br>To: <a onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;" href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@googlegroups.com</a> <br>From: Michael Banck <br>Sent by: <a onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;" href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@googlegroups.com</a> <br>Date: 06/25/2013 10:50AM <br>Subject: Re: [CP2K:4471] CP2K - new version release - 2.4 <br> <br>Hello, <br> <br>On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:22:57PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: <br>> One more thing: could you add a licence header to all source files? <br>> Some of the files have statements suggesting they're not licenced under <br>> the GPLv2+. <br>> <br>> These files: <br>> <br>> src/fft_lib/ctrig.F <br>> src/fft_lib/fftpre.F <br>> src/fft_lib/ffttrot.F <br>> src/fft_lib/fftstp.F <br>> <br>> have this statement: <br>> <br>> ! Commercial use is prohibited <br>> ! without the explicit permission of the author. <br>> <br>> Actually, the contain only a copyright statement and no explicit <br>> permission to distribute (modified) versions of the file. I'd say <br>> this makes cp2k non-free, so please change those statements to state <br>> they're covered by GPLv2+ and preferably add a licence header to each <br>> source file to avoid any doubts. <br> <br>Looking at <a onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fcomphys.unibas.ch%2FSOFTWARE%2FFFT%2Ffft3d.f90\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNFbJEC5bgNCje1T5YGB-_XoKDlvMQ';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fcomphys.unibas.ch%2FSOFTWARE%2FFFT%2Ffft3d.f90\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNFbJEC5bgNCje1T5YGB-_XoKDlvMQ';return true;" href="http://comphys.unibas.ch/SOFTWARE/FFT/fft3d.f90" target="_blank">http://comphys.unibas.ch/<wbr>SOFTWARE/FFT/fft3d.f90</a> and the <br>BigDFT code at [1], it seems S. Goedecker has GPL-licensed (v2 or later) <br>that code later on. <br> <br>So I guess it would be, for all practical purposes, fine to just add the <br>regular copyright boilerplate and the CP2K copyright, removing the <br>"Commercial use is prohibited without the explicit permission of the <br>author." part, but keeping his copyright line. <br> <br> <br>Best Regards, <br> <br>Michael <br> <br>[1] <a onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fbazaar.launchpad.net%2F~bigdft-developers%2Fbigdft%2Fmaster%2Fview%2Fhead%3A%2Fsrc%2Flib%2Ffft%2Ffft3d.f90\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNED_NuV6348JKFF6gq-3_YHvvZHDA';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fbazaar.launchpad.net%2F~bigdft-developers%2Fbigdft%2Fmaster%2Fview%2Fhead%3A%2Fsrc%2Flib%2Ffft%2Ffft3d.f90\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNED_NuV6348JKFF6gq-3_YHvvZHDA';return true;" 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> <br> <br>-- <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 onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;" href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp2k+uns...@googlegroups.<wbr>com</a>. <br>To post to this group, send email to <a onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;" href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="QIGzm6bY3s8J">cp...@googlegroups.com</a>. <br>Visit this group at <a onmousedown="this.href='http://groups.google.com/group/cp2k';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://groups.google.com/group/cp2k';return true;" href="http://groups.google.com/group/cp2k" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/<wbr>group/cp2k</a>. <br>For more options, visit <a onmousedown="this.href='https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out';return true;" onclick="this.href='https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out';return true;" href="https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/<wbr>groups/opt_out</a>. <br> <br> <br></blockquote></div>