Any update on migration of LAMMPS licence terms from GLP to LGLP

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Dear LAMMPS developers,
In the spring of 2019 you sent out an email explaining your desire to migrate from GPL to LGPL. The reasoning seemed very sound - and I notice that PLUMED has already made the change. Do you have an update on this as regards LAMMPS - and when/if you will make the switch?

We are interested in this regarding its impact on software distributed according to Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ when dynamically linked to LAMMPS

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Thanks & Best wishes

Donal

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Donal,

out of curiosity: who is “we”?

the current status is the following:

  • development continues under GPL
  • an LGPL version of LAMMPS is available on request (= email to steve) for stable releases

HTH,
Axel.

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Thanks, Axel for the instant reply.
We = a group of students and me at University College Dublin in software & simulation work partly supported by H2020 E-CAM CoE https://www.e-cam2020.eu/

Best Wishes

Donal