Dear Edward,
Indeed, the maple code was initially written by Nikolai in 2000 or 2001 and as far as I remember be debugged it together, so my contribution is minor.
However, I am glad to state:
"I agree to licence my contributions to the code in the file
https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404 attached to https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, version three or higher. My copyright covers the years 2000-2001." Best,
Martin
………..
Dr. Martin Tollinger
Center of Molecular Biosciences (CMBI) & Institute of Organic Chemistry
LFU University of Innsbruck, Austria
On Jul 29, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Edward d'Auvergne <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Martin and Nikolai,
I'm sorry I didn't contact you earlier. I have only recently realised that you may own the copyright on code which has recently been incorporated into the program relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com). This is the Python code from Paul Schanda, Mathilde Lescanne, and Dominique Marion which appears to have its origins in Matlab code you developed back in 2005 and earlier. I have described in full detail how relax uses this code in a public mailing list message to Nikolai at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.devel/4268/focus=4270 I was wondering if you would be able to detail the origins and history of your code? For relax to be able to legally incorporate the code, a copyright licence from all authors is required (as well as which years the code was developed, for the copyright notice). relax is an open source software project which relies on the GPLv3+ licence (the GNU General Public Licence). You can see an example of the copyright notice at the top of this file: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/ns_2site_expanded.py?revision=20464&content-type=text%2Fplain&pathrev=20478 Some of the contents of that file might be familiar. As long as you are ok with this, I would like to have your permission to use this code. It requires a statement to one of the relax public mailing lists, such as this one, similar to: "I agree to licence my contributions to the code in the file https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=18404 attached to https://gna.org/task/?7712 under the GNU General Public Licence, version three or higher. My copyright covers the years 200?-2005." I would assume that your are familiar with the Matlab contents of that sim_all.tar file. For reference, the GPL licence is explained in detail at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. The copyright licence allows the code to be used in relax for ever - the GPL licence to the code in relax can never be revoked. But you own the copyright to your code - it is not a copyright transfer. So you are free license your code as you wish in the future, or to do as you like with it. But you cannot re-license the code that is located within relax or revoke the licence. This is the standard protection for open source projects. If you are happy with this, then please respond to this message with text similar to the above statement (it can be copied and modified). This will allow the code to remain in relax and allow Paul and Dominique to expand on their changes and improvements to your code within relax for their own benefit. It also allows other relax developers to expand on the code. I will then add your names with the dates to the copyright notices in the relevant files in relax. You might be able to identify your code in the files at http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/branches/relax_disp/lib/dispersion/?pathrev=20478. You are also free to give suggestions as to how you should be acknowledged in the relax user manual (temporarily at http://download.gna.org/relax/manual/relax_disp_manual.pdf). If you do not agree, I can remove all of the affected code from relax. Thank you, Edward On 29 July 2013 11:46, Paul Schanda <paul.schanda@xxxxxx> wrote: Hi Edward, |