<< Cosmo.WebHome %TOC% ---- ---+ Cosmo software licensing The aim of this section is to list and clarify licenses of widely used cosmology packages, mainly focussing on ones that are [[WikipediaEn:The_Free_Software_Definition][free-licensed]] or [[WikipediaEn:The_Open_Source_Definition][OSI-open-source-definition-licensed]]. | *name* | *URL* | *licence* | *free-licensed* | *GNU freedoms* |||| | | | | | *0* | *1* | *2* | *3* | | | | | | *use* | *modify* | *redistribute* | *redist modif.* | | RAMSES | | Cecill | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | | mpgrafic2 | | GPL | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | | Gadget2 | | GPL | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | | GDL | | GPL | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | | CLASS | | | N | Y | N | N | N| | !CosmicFish | ArXiv:1606.06268 | | | | | | ---+ Cosmo software advice * Science software development advice: ArXiv:1210.0530 * general strategies * Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself * unit and integration tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development * object-oriented software (python, C++): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID ---++ Software that could endanger people Cosmology research software is unlikely to be used in systems that could endanger people. Therac-25 is a classical case of software-controlled medical equipment that killed people in the 1980s in Canada, and the British Post Office scandal a case in the 2000s and 2010s in which (apparently hundreds of) postal workers were imprisoned in the UK based on software that falsely claimed they had stolen money: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal %RED%Initial draft only!!! incomplete and unchecked... Please update!%ENDCOLOR% -- Main.BoudRoukema - 21 Jun 2016
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