From 1e1ea54bada54ae783198823c7f8fe0430ac41cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Todd Gamblin Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 00:26:31 -0700 Subject: relicense: update COPYRIGHT, LICENSE-*, README, CONTRIBUTING, and NOTICE This updates Spack's top-level metadata files to reflect the new Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses. --- README.md | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5a72220612..3ec1f8d239 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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`` -- cgit v1.2.3-60-g2f50