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- <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is distributed under the Q Public License
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+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is distributed under the license below.
+ It is based on the Q Public License (or "QPL"), which qualifies as
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+ Source license</a>. It differs in two points in section <em>Granted
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+ that even generation of data by applications based on
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- In addition to the terms imposed by the QPL, we have one restriction
- on the use of the library:
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- <li> Every publication presenting numerical results obtained with
- the help of <acronym>deal.II</acronym> shall state the name of
- the library and its principle authors (at present Wolfgang
- Bangerth and Guido Kanschat), as well as cite at least one of
- the papers by these authors on <acronym>deal.II</acronym>. This
+ <li> This
is the usual, fair way of giving credits to contributors to a
scientific result, and using a complex programming environment
like <acronym>deal.II</acronym> should be considered a
<i>authors of <acronym>deal.II</acronym></i> and
<i><acronym>deal.II</acronym> authors</i> generally refer to the
principle authors of the library. These are presently Wolfgang
- Bangerth and Guido Kanschat.
+ Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann and Guido Kanschat.
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<h1 align=center>
-THE Q PUBLIC LICENSE
+The <acronym>deal.II</acronym> Public License
version 1.0
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<small>
-Copyright (C) 1999 Troll Tech AS, Norway.
+Copyright (C) 2001 The <acronym>deal.II</acronym> Authors
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Everyone is permitted to copy and
Granted Rights
</h2>
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-1. You are granted the non-exclusive rights set forth in this license
+<ol>
+<li> You are granted the non-exclusive rights set forth in this license
provided you agree to and comply with any and all conditions in this
license. Whole or partial distribution of the Software, or software
items that link with the Software, in any form signifies acceptance of
this license.
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-2. You may copy and distribute the Software in unmodified form provided
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that the entire package, including - but not restricted to - copyright,
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+<li> Publications presenting applications or results obtained with the
+ help of the software are allowed, provided that they state the
+ name of the software and its principle authors (at present
+ Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann and Guido Kanschat), as well
+ as cite at least one of the papers by these authors on
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym>. These publications should be
+ announced on the <acronym>deal.II</acronym> mailing list.
+</ol>
<h2 align=center>
Limitations of Liability
</h2>
<p>
<acronym>deal.II</acronym> was originally designed and written by
- <a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~wolf/" target="_top">Wolfgang
- Bangerth</a>, starting in early 1998; he is still maintaining and
- managing the library, contributing code, and writing
- documentation.
- <a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~kanschat/" target="_top">Guido
- Kanschat</a> helped with advice in the early
- implementation stages on questions of the design of object-oriented
- finite element software and later joined into the coding.
+ <a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~wolf/"
+ target="_top">Wolfgang Bangerth</a>, starting in early 1998; he is
+ still maintaining and managing the library, contributing code, and
+ writing documentation. <a
+ href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~kanschat/"
+ target="_top">Guido Kanschat</a> helped with advice in the early
+ implementation stages on questions of the design of
+ object-oriented finite element software and later joined into the
+ coding. Ralf Hartmann is the third author of the library.
</p>
<p>
<li><em>John Burnell:</em>
Configuration on Microsoft Windows systems.
- <li><em>Ralf Hartmann:</em>
- SolutionTransfer class;
- discontinuous finite elements;
- SolverSelector class.
-
<li><em>Stefan Nauber:</em>
postscript output.
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