From 7bb082792568fad555578c8a5c726e89a4686812 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wolf Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:45:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Some more things around the license. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@2364 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/readme.html | 33 +++++++++++++++++---------------- deal.II/doc/toc.html | 10 ++++------ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html index b0e23b6cab..e495f004fd 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html @@ -376,17 +376,24 @@

License

- Note that we have not yet fully finished the license under which - we will distribute the library. However, we will keep to the - following principles: +

+ We have placed deal.II under an + Open Source + license, which allows you to use the library free of charge for + non-commercial purposes. You are guaranteed full access to the + source code and are encouraged to help in the further development + of the library. To read the full text of the library, follow + this link. +

+

+ The basics of the license are in short:

Note that since our institute is evaluated at regular intervals, we are interested in documenting the use of the programs and - libraries we create. This is the reason for not allowing to freely - re-distribute them. We would also be interested in collecting + libraries we create. We are therefore interested in collecting publications with results obtained with the aid of these libraries and would therefore like to ask you to drop us a note about every - such publication. Your publication will then be listed on the DEAL - homepage. You see, it works both ways. + such publication. Your publication will then be listed on the + project homepage.
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/toc.html b/deal.II/doc/toc.html index 804c6476a5..39f9b3ebae 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/toc.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/toc.html @@ -130,16 +130,14 @@

License

- deal.II is copyrighted by the authors and by - the university of Heidelberg. However, it is Open Source, in the + deal.II is Open Source, in the sense advocated by the Open Source Initiative. You are free to use it in non-commercial ways, i.e. in particular in research and education, and you are - guaranteed full access to the source code. The license for - deal.II is based on the QPL, and the - full text of the license - is also available, of course. + guaranteed full access to the source code. For the details, see + the ReadMe file, and the + full text of the license.

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