GiPSi Public License

The GiPSi source code is available under a variant of the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The license, called the GiPSi Public License (GiPSiPL), is equivalent to the MPL with only trivial changes such as mentioning Case Western Reserve University and University of California rather than Netscape. It is compliant with the Open Source Definition.

The full text of the GiPSiPL

You can view the exact differences between the Mozilla Public License and the GiPSi Public License here. (Hopefully this will be added very soon.)

Questions about the license?

If you have any questions about the license, what it allows and prohibits, we suggest you head over to the Mozilla License forum - the GiPSiPL and Mozilla really are close enough to identical that any queries you have are best addressed there: news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.license


Source files do not need to have the full gory text of the license in them; instead, just a header mentioning that they are covered under this license. The header should read (ignoring any necessary comment characters):

GiPSi Public License Notice

The contents of this file are subject to the GiPSiPublic License Version
1.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with
the License. A copy of the License is available at https://cwru-mercis.github.io/GiPSi/

The Original Code is ______________.
The Initial Developer of the Original Code is ______________.
Portions created by ______________ are Copyright (C) ____.
All Rights Reserved.

Contributor(s): ______________________________________.

For example :

GiPSi Public License Notice

The contents of this file are subject to the GiPSi Public License Version
1.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with
the License. A copy of the License is available at http://gipsi.case.edu/

The Original Code is the GiPSi Test Code.
The Initial Developer of the Original Code is John Doe.
Portions created by John Doe are Copyright (C) 2003.
All Rights Reserved.

Contributor(s): John Doe, Jane Doe.