New license

[keeeto]

License change

Reviewers

I have added all contributors as reviewers - you just need to state that you are happy to have the license change. Feel free to dig deeper into the changes, but a record of your agreement to the change is the most important thing! Thanks.

As agreed with the developers of smact this PR changes from GPL to MIT license.

• The LICENSE file has been changed
• GPL headers have been removed from all code files (no replacement is required for MIT)
• Reference to the elements.txt file from OpenBabel has been removed as we no longer use this file. The GPL 2 license associated with this has been removed.

To test

No functional testing required. Please just check that license files have been changed where you would expect. Also, please confirm what I said about OpenBabel and GPL2.

[ajjackson]

I'm happy to switch to MIT, as previously discussed.

I confirm that the periodic table data is no longer from OpenBabel, it was rebuilt from the data sources cited in the header.

Requested changes

• The license file still contains placeholders for [year] and [fullname], those should be filled in.
• License type should be updated in setup.py

[keeeto]

Good point. Who should go in full name? All contributors to date?

[jarvist]

Sometimes you just have e.g. 'The Smact Developers' to go in as a name in the license, then some list elsewhere.

Also, I confirm I'm happy for the re-license!

[keeeto]

That's a good idea Jarv. I might add a developers file to the repo.

[dandavies99]

The [year] and [name] placeholders in LICENCE have now been updated to "2019 The SMACT Developers" and an accompanying list of developers has been added to the README.