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Can ALPS be included in the Guix repo? The question is about the license
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nigko |
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Can ALPS be included in the Guix repo? The question is about the licenses. |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:03:31 +0500 |
Hello Guix!
The ALPS project* (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210508050408/https://alps.comp-phys.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
is an open source effort aiming at providing simulation codes for
strongly correlated quantum mechanical systems as well as C++ libraries
for simplifying the development of such code.
According to https://alps.comp-phys.org/mediawiki/index.php/Licensing
the ALPS _Libraries_ are available for _academic and non-commercial_ use
under the terms of the ALPS _Library_ License version 1.0,
https://web.archive.org/web/20210506121129/https://alps.comp-phys.org/static/software/ALPS/LICENSE.txt/,
the ALPS _Applications_ under the ALPS _Application_ License version 1.0,
https://web.archive.org/web/20210512081507/https://alps.comp-phys.org/static/software/applications/LICENSE.txt/.
I wonder can ALPS be included in the Guix repo? My concern is in the
licenses. In particular, the ALPS licenses state that the ALPS is for
"non-commercial academic use", but according to
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html "a free program must be
available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial
distribution", which are in the contradiction.
Regards,
N Y
*Since 2022-10-21 the project is being dormant,
https://green.physics.lsa.umich.edu/alps_legacy/index.php?title=Main_Page
- Can ALPS be included in the Guix repo? The question is about the licenses.,
nigko <=