[sdpd] Re: Re-using software pieces

[L.M.D.Cranswick... @dl.ac.uk (L. Cranswick)]

> >One of the main problems now days seems to be not
> >what crystallographers would like to give away - but
> >what their laboratory/organisation policies are 
> >in this regard.
> 
> Well, hard to see the role of the IUCr Crystallographic
> Computing  Commission in such a context : making
> advertisement for commercial software ? Or should the
> Commission find some way to encourage creation of
> free-for-academic software ?

Freely available software and open source software GLP'd
software can be two different things.

There is still a lot of freely available code and programs 
but getting a significant amount of it under some kind 
of "GNU Licence" could be non-trivial.  

Time will tell then - once it is in an archive, in
theory, it is in for good.  

Lachlan.

PS:  A distraction on the subject of archives - I
am looking for an archive based around 
"Computer Physics Communications" which is supposedly
based in the "Maths Dept at Queens University in Belfast".
I am told quite an amount of scientific and 
crystallographic code was deposited there in the 
past.  Finding it again is prooving to be non-trivial.

Any web-pointers/addresses to this appreciated.

-- 
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

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