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From: nigko <nigko.yerden@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Can ALPS be included in the Guix repo? The question is about the licenses.
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:03:31 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8dc822a-75bc-44d8-8775-65dedc6991be@gmail.com> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2023-08-13 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-12 11:03 nigko [this message]
2023-08-13 14:31 ` Can ALPS be included in the Guix repo? The question is about the licenses Efraim Flashner
2023-08-19  8:42   ` Simon Tournier

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