[mesa-users] Jones et al. Urca

[Francis Timmes]

seems i forgot to hit reply-all to include mesa-users in my reply. 
anyway, you’ve heard from sam & josiah ...


hi amber,

i’m glad to see you are reading mesa III with this level of attention!

the sentence in question was worded incorrectly,
and has already been reworded in a revised manuscript. 

the short of it is jones et al used a denser table described 
in toki et al. it is the table, not the code, that is private.

this is perfectly ok. 
one is not required to persuade a source of private information to make 
it public in order to use it with mesa. that would be counter-productive.

said another way, mesa is designed to be flexible - one can use private third party 
rates that are not in the standard mesa set. this is what jones et al did. 

to give another common example, our experimental nuclear physics colleagues 
often have newly measured private rates that they quietly test with mesa 
well before the newly measured rates, and their impact, are made public. 
this type of activity is highly encouraged!

does this help clarify?

fxt






> On Aug 5, 2015, at 9:43 PM, Amber Lauer <alauer1 at tigers.lsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I noticed in the new instrument paper that Jones 2013 used what is referred to as an "unavailable private version" based on 3709. While there is no specific license format (gnu, bsd, etc) mentioned in the manifesto, this sort of thing is explicitly prohibited, I thought (specifically regarding user modifications and additions). Anyone care to comment?
> 
> -- 
> Amber Lauer. M.S. Physics
> PhD Candidate,
> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy,
> Louisiana State University
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