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Model Licening information

More will come soon--WikiSysop 11:46, 29 August 2008 (MDT)

External links:

http://rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm (Open Source Licensing book)
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ (list including information of all open source licenses)

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 models. These models are only free available.....
+'''Why do I need to license my source code?'''
+The main goal of CSDMS is to offer a community-built and ''freely available'' suite of integrated, ever-improving ''software models and modules'' that predict the movement of fluids and the flux—production, erosion, transport, and deposition—of sediment and solutes in landscapes and their sedimentary basins over a broad range of time and space scales.<br>
+''How to choose a software license?''
 CSDMS thoose to develop model couplers under the GPL version 2 license. The GPL v.2 license is widely used by free libre / open source software developers because the license:
 #provides a better quid-pro-quo for developers
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 #Protects developers work
 #encourages increasing the amount of free software.
-And even if you don't like the GPL license, potential co-developers do so your project is more likely to be successful if you accommodate them.<br>
+Using the GNU GPL will require that all the released improved versions be free software. This means you can avoid the risk of having to compete with a proprietary modified version of your own work.<br>
+And even if you don't like the GPL license, potential co-developers do, so your project is more likely to be successful if you accommodate them.<br>
 Therefore CSDMS urges program developers to chose GPL version 2 or at least GPLv2 compatible licenses to make it possible to couple models with other models such that other people can use them. The next Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved licenses are GPL v.2 compatible:
 *Artistic License 2.0