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- <h1>License</h1>
+ <h1><acronym>deal.II</acronym>-license for non-commercial use</h1>
<p>
<acronym>deal.II</acronym> is placed under an Open Source license,
In addition to the terms imposed by the QPL, we have one restriction
on the use of the library:
<ul>
- <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>.
+ <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
+ 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
+ significant contribution.
</ul>
- Please note that by this we do not mean to restrict your freedom of
- publication, but we need external citations to justify our work on
- the development of the library in regular reviews which our
- institute has to undergo.
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