Copyright and authorship ======================== ARES/BORG is developed under CECIL/v2.1 license, which is compatible with the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL is fundamentally based on Anglo-Saxon law and is not fully compatible with European laws. However CECIL implies GPL protections and it is available in at least two European languages, French and English. Keep in mind that in principle your moral rights on the software that you write is your sole ownership, while the exploitation rights may belong to the entity which has paid your salary/equipment during the development phase. An interesting discussion on French/European author protection is given `here `__ (unfortunately only in French, if anybody finds an equivalent in English please post it here). How to specify copyright info in source code ? ---------------------------------------------- As the main author of the code is becoming diverse it is important to mark fairly who is/are the main author(s) of a specific part of the code. The current situation is the following: - if an "ARES TAG" is found in the source code, it is used to fill up copyright information. For example .. code:: c++ // ARES TAG: authors_num = 2 // ARES TAG: name(0) = Guilhem Lavaux // ARES TAG: email(0) = guilhem.lavaux@iap.fr // ARES TAG: year(0) = 2014-2018 // ARES TAG: name(1) = Jens Jasche // ARES TAG: email(1) = jens.jasche@fysik.su.se // ARES TAG: year(1) = 2009-2018 this indicates that two authors are principal authors, with their name, email and year of writing. - In addition to the principal authors, minor modifications are noted by the script and additional names/emails are put in the 'Additional Contributions' sections - by default Guilhem Lavaux and Jens Jasche are marked as the main authors. When all the files are marked correctly this default will disappear and an error will be raised when no tag is found.