- Is HIVE-4 Free
- Why is HIVE-4 not open source?
- Why is the licence only valid 1 year?
- Do I need to cite any specific publication?
- I found a bug
Indeed, HIVE-4 is free to use for any acadmic user. I only ask, as an academic courtesy to cite the related publication whenever you publish results obtained with this software. You can find the relevant publications both on the github documentation as well as the in-program manual.
This program makes extended use of Object Oriented Fortran (imagine classes and factories in fortran :-) cf. my tutorials ) so very few will actually be able to figure out what it is doing. Second, and more importantly, I do not have the time to maintain this program as an open source project.
It is a lazy way of making sure you use the most recent version of the program, and thus the one with the "fewest" bugs. ;-). And since the prgram is free, and installation is just a copy/past action, installing a new version is as simple as replacing the old files.
As an academic courtesy, I would like to ask you to cite the relevant publication if and when you publish results obtained using my program. You can find the relevant publications both on the github documentation as well as the in-program manual.
In case you encounter a bug (of any kind) please inform me by creating an issue. Please check if no-one else already posted an issue, in which case please add your bug-report to the existing issue. If you are the first, create an issue with a bug-report. Try to be as clear as possible in describing what you encounter and what you expect.