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We're having a discussion about how we would like to have the milkyway code be licensed (open source of course). I was wondering if any of you had any information as to this process.
I think the thing we are most concerned about is that we want our code to be openly available for use and modification -- however if someone distributes their own binary, that code must be made available as well.
It's a little frustrating when people are releasing binaries to the general public and we have no access to the code being used to generate these binaries; so we can't put these optimizations into our own stock application so everyone can benefit
from them. It can also make debugging things a pain because we don't know exactly where our results are coming from.
I also think some of our users should be a bit concerned about this as well because they don't know exactly what they're running on their machines.
Anyways, we'd like your input and information so we can select an appropriate open source license for the milkyway code. I've made a forum post for this discussion here.

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