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Cosmo software licensing

The aim of this section is to list and clarify licenses of widely used cosmology packages, mainly focussing on ones that are free-licensed or OSI-open-source-definition-licensed.

name URL licence free-licensed GNU freedoms
        0 1 2 3
        use modify redistribute redist modif.
RAMSES   Cecill Y Y Y Y Y
mpgrafic2   GPL Y Y Y Y Y
Gadget2   GPL Y Y Y Y Y
GDL   GPL Y Y Y Y Y
CLASS     N Y N N N
CosmicFish ArXiv:1606.06268          

Cosmo software advice

Software that could endanger people

Cosmology research software is unlikely to be used in systems that could endanger people. Therac-25 is a classical case of software-controlled medical equipment that killed people in the 1980s in Canada, and the British Post Office scandal a case in the 2000s and 2010s in which (apparently hundreds of) postal workers were imprisoned in the UK based on software that falsely claimed they had stolen money:

Initial draft only!!! incomplete and unchecked... Please update! -- BoudRoukema - 21 Jun 2016

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