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Unclear what license options are available #153
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As part of the copyright notice at the top of source files is the paragraph
THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BSD NEW LICENSE OR THE
GPL VERSION 3 LICENSE OR THE OSMC PUBLIC LICENSE (OSMC-PL) VERSION 1.2.
ANY USE, REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF THIS PROGRAM CONSTITUTES
RECIPIENT'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE OSMC PUBLIC LICENSE OR THE GPL VERSION 3,
ACCORDING TO RECIPIENTS CHOICE.
The first sentence makes it sound like like the user can choose new BSD, GPL3, or OSMC-PL. This agrees with the license info specified in setup.py. However, the second sentence does not mention new BSD. The COPYING file also makes no mention of new BSD, suggesting the only options are GPL3 or OSMC-PL.
Is this code available to use under the new BSD license?
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bilderbuchi commentedon Jul 5, 2022
This probably happened because of an omission in the license header template, related OM issue: OpenModelica/OpenModelica#7612
adeas31 commentedon Dec 1, 2025
Updated the license in #392
cbu-hw commentedon Dec 1, 2025
@adeas31 in OpenModelica/OMJulia.jl#61 (comment) (and some previous comments in that thread) @casella confirmed that scripting/wrapper packages (in that context: OMJulia, OMPython) should be under the OSMC-PL_RT runtime license (for reasons discussed/clarified in that thread).
However, in #392 you used the text of the OSMC-PL, not the runtime license's. Can you rectify/comment on that?
cf also my (bilderbuchi) previous report OpenModelica/OpenModelica#10129
adeas31 commentedon Dec 1, 2025
I was not aware of that information.
PR #393 changes the license to OSMC-PL-RT from https://openmodelica.org/osmc-pl/osmc-pl-1.8-runtime.txt
cbu-hw commentedon Dec 2, 2025
No worries, I figured as much. Thanks!