License and Support =================== License ------- The project is distributed "has it is" under `GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL) `_, which is a strong copyleft license. This means that the code is open-source and you are free to do anything you want with it, **as long as you apply the same license to distribute your code**. This constraining license is imposed by the use of `Platypus Library `_ as "optimization algorithm library", which is under GPL license. It is perfectly possible to use other optimization library (which would use the same algorithms but with a different implementation) and to interface it to this project, so that the use of platypus is no longer needed. This work has already been done for `NLopt `_, which is under MIT license (not constraining at all). In that case, **after removing all the platypus sources** (optiAlgorithms/multiObjective_GA and optiAlgorithsm/platypus/*), the license of the present work becomes less restrictive: `GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) `_. As for the GPL, this license makes the project open-source and free to be modified, but (nearly) no limitation is made to distribute your code. Support ------- Github (preferably) / Send mail at christophe.degreef@uclouvain.be