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Free Software for Chemical Process Simulation?
chthonicdaemon asks: "I am about to embark on a mission: to create a Free (as in freedom) chemical process simulator. My field is control engineering, and as such, dynamic simulation is what it is all about. There is an open source steady-state simulator called sim42, but I have not found one that can do dynamics. There is also a lot of work available in the form of implementation standards, so I am confident that it can be done. Is there anything like this out there that I have not found, and what open technology could I leverage to get this done faster (perhaps something like SML)."
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If you've the time, and your institution has the lawyers, go after the base source code for Gaussian. There is a huge amount of code there that belongs to the taxpayers of the USA. Getting it will require litigation and if you're lucky you can cause these asses to bankrupt themselves.
More globally, what is important here is that as codes are developed on the taxpayer's money, these codes need to get out to the public under the BSD or GPL licenses.
AC - otherwise Gaussian will litigate me!