Dchem was started in 2008 while Fawzi was working at the Chemistry institute at Prof. Sauer Group, with a AvH fellowship.
The aim was to build a new basis for my development of computational programs, especially in the chemistry and molecular modeling field. At the moment it focuses more on the sampling part, implementing novel exploration techniques, but it scope is expected to become broader.
The tango library gave an excellent starting point for many things, but was missing some basic things. For things that might be generally useful it was decided to use a very liberal apache 2.0 license, and release them as a separate libray blip.
The more “applicative” part is the present project, dchem, and it is released as GPL v3.0, also to be able to profit without any licensing issues on my previous experience with cp2k which is GPL.
The first pioneers in using dchem are
many thanks to them to put up with all the bug and contribution to make dchem a working program.
enjoy
Fawzi