Licensing

Consortium for Open Multiphysics

Licensing

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One of the main objectives of this consortium is to develop an open infrastructure through which multiple applications may interact and operate in concert to conduct multiphysics modeling and simulation. The required infrastructure has many components with contributions in whole or in part of many different developers and packages, from many different environments. It is very important that infrastructure components have licensing that is compatible with the large number of licenses under which all of the integrated applications are distributed. This, along with our goal to help increase utilization of multiphysics and of HPC in general in manufacturing and industry, and our strong desire to encourage multiphysics-ready and HPC-friendly architectures and licensing models from commercial simulation software, necessitate a license with maximum compatibility which allows the software to be readily used in all environments.

All infrastructure constructs and components must have OSI-approved non-copyleft licenses, ensuring license compatibility with all other licenses of integrated components, and offering no impedance for adoption or evaluation in any environment.

Note that this licensing requirement does not extend to integrated components or user applications, which is precisely the point. Any entity can use the infrastructure constructs in their own developments under any sort of license without exposing their own intellectual property.

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Licenses used in this project to date

University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

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