[Savannah-register-public] [task #10626] Submission of ESPResSo

[Karl Berry]

Follow-up Comment #5, task #10626 (project administration):

Hi Olaf,

Well, I'd probably be the one to answer if you wrote address@hidden, so let
me write here.

First, what was the original intent of the authors with that clause "4.
ESPResSo is intended only to be used for academic research"?  Was the idea
simply to warn potential users that the program was not aimed at an industrial
process?  Or is that you actively wished to *disallow* someone in industry
from using it in their work?  The former is ok, essentially just a request,
not part of the license.  The latter is an additional legal restriction, not
ok.

As for relicensing under pure GPL (definitely a good outcome), permission of
all the copyright holders is what is needed.  If all the contributors were
working for MPI and MPI really does hold the copyright, then only MPI has to
agree.

Independent of that, getting some sort of paper from an official at MPI that
they agree with the program being licensed under the GPL would be a good
thing.  (Not that we need to see it -- it's just for your own and the
software's protection.)

If MPI keeps the copyright, there's no need to add individual contributor
names.  It's also ok to use stuff like "Copyright 2010 The Espresso Project".

You shouldn't put the FSF or FSFE as the copyright holder, since you haven't
transferred the copyright to them (and they couldn't accept it in the present
state, anyway).

Hope this helps a little.  Let us know ...

Thanks,
Karl





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