Software Licensing Issues

Jamie Shiers

CERN

Software Licensing Issues

Presentation Overview

Which Software Licenses?

Licensing Strategy

Current Practise: CERNLIB

CERNLIB Access

“CERNLIB” for LHC

Implementing CERNLIB for LHC

Why use commercial products?

Current LHC++ Strategy

Current LHC++ strategy

LHC++ strategy

License futures

Licenses: Overview

Developer and Runtime licenses

License Considerations

License Model for LHC - A Proposal

Impact on External Institutes

Costs for External Institutes

Non-CERN work - external impact

Summary of costs per LHC experiment

Conclusions