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@@ -107,10 +107,25 @@ If you are referencing Spack in a publication, please cite the following paper: [**The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos**](http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/2015/3723/00/2807623.pdf). In *Supercomputing 2015 (SC’15)*, Austin, Texas, November 15-20 2015. LLNL-CONF-669890. -Release +License ---------------- -Spack is released under an LGPL license. For more details see the -NOTICE and LICENSE files. + +Spack is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the +Apache License (Version 2.0). Users may choose either license, at their +option. + +All new contributions must be made under both the MIT and Apache-2.0 +licenses. + +13 of Spack's 2,800 packages are still only only available under LGPL-2.1 +terms. They will eventually be relicensed, rewritten, or removed as we +work towards 100% Apache2/MIT. To see which package files are still +under the LGPL-2.1 license, run the `spack license list-lgpl` command. + +See [LICENSE-MIT](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/LICENSE-MIT), +[LICENSE-APACHE](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/LICENSE-APACHE), +[COPYRIGHT](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/COPYRIGHT), and +[NOTICE](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/NOTICE) for details. ``LLNL-CODE-647188`` |