From aradi at uni-bremen.de Wed Feb 22 09:44:24 2017 From: aradi at uni-bremen.de (=?UTF-8?Q?B=c3=a1lint_Aradi?=) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:44:24 +0100 Subject: [DFTB-Announce] SK-files under CC-BY-SA license Message-ID: <06b0e51a-adb4-734e-2f0e-5da030910010@uni-bremen.de> Dear DFTB community members, dear Slako-users, our DFTB community has grown in the last few years considerably, leading to more than 2,000 registered research groups on the DFTB.ORG website. We are very proud of having you all in the DFTB-community and would like to thank you for your valuable contributions in applying the DFTB method to a broad range of scientific problems. In the future, we would like to enlarge the community even further and also to involve you gradually more and more into the parameter development. Using the experience of so many researchers, we hope to extend the range of materials and scientific problems, to which the DFTB methodology can be applied, in the future considerably. While this goal still requires several steps to go, the first one just has been made today. All parties offering Slater-Koster files on DFTB.ORG have relicensed the most recent version of their parameter sets. From now on, those SK-sets are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ From now on, you can download the sets without signing any license agreement and use them for both, non-commercial and commercial research. You can even modify and redistribute those sets if you wish so, provided the licensing conditions are respected. (Please see the description of each set for more details on the exact licensing conditions.) We hope, this step allows you to use DFTB in your research more efficiently. Best regards, Bálint Aradi -- Dr. Bálint Aradi Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen http://www.bccms.uni-bremen.de/cms/people/b_aradi/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: