>>>
>>>
>>> Please provide a syllogism that explains the split.
>>
>> Indeed this also makes no sense to me. The whole FREE GPL blah vs proprietary split between AmberTools and Amber was never properly done anyway. E.g. $AMBERHOME/AmberTools/src/chamber/copyright.h
>
> This is confusing, and it should be fixed. It *should* be FOSS, or it should be moved to Amber. (It doesn’t *really* matter, since chamber is getting phased out.)
>
> I was under the impression that everything in AmberTools was being relicensed to LGPL or something compatible (like BSD).
>
No, no, no and no. What is in AmberTools is provided free for use in the manner intended. As far as I am concerned I retain personal copyright of all code I contribute. I make it available royalty free for use in AMBER and AmberTools. This is VERY different to GPL, LGPL, BSD etc.
All the best
Ross
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| Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| University of California San Diego |
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