License
We need to choose a license. I currently tend to favor a CC license, since they have a pretty clear structure. One question we did not touch is the question whether people may derive software from that and what license they may choose That question is a bit tricky since we expect people to implement their own Hamiltonian and therefore they create a derivative work. This would lead to a CC-BY (Do what you want and name ALF) or CC-BY-SA (name ALF, and share alike)or CC-BY-NC(Name ALF and licensing only for Non-commercial purposes.) I think I would go with CC-BY-SA... Fakher has said that he's OK with a license along those lines. As I found out the CC-BY-SA license is usually not used with source code. So I have to look on... TO BE CONTINUED....