[Dune] license again

[Christoph Grüninger]

Hi Gregor,
the other answers are right.

I wanted to ask you, whether your change of dune-geometry would be of 
interest for a wider audience. Then it would be nice, if you could 
contribute it as a merge request, so we can include it.

Bye
Christoph

Am 27.11.20 um 19:25 schrieb Gregor Corbin:
> Dear Dune Community,
> 
> as part of my Ph.D. I wrote some code based on DUNE and DUNE PDELab, 
> which I now want make accessible for everyone. I sent everything (the 
> research code, auxiliary scripts, outputs) to the university library to 
> put it on one of their servers.
> They asked me under which license I want to publish it. My first 
> instinct was to choose a relatively strict open source license, such as 
> GPL. But I have really no clue about the fine details and implications.
> The person from the library told me that using the GPL could mean that 
> colleagues from my work group could not re-use my code for their 
> research/publications. This seems a bit far fetched for me, as there is 
> apparently also no problem for me to publish results obtained with code 
> based on the Dune libraries.
> 
> So, are there any downsides of using the GPL?
> 
> To complicate matters, I included a small patch (as a git diff) to 
> dune-geometry (The original dune modules are not a part of the published 
> package. I only have a script to clone them from their repositories). 
> Does this mean I have to use the GPL anyway? I am aware that there was a 
> discussion about licenses to modified dune code recently, but this is 
> still unclear to me.
> 
> I would be grateful for any advice in this.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gregor Corbin
> 
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