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The deal.II library has been placed under an Open Source license, in the sense advocated by the Open Source - Initiative. You are thus free to copy and use it, and you have - free access to all source codes. However, deal.II - is not in the public domain, it is property of and copyrighted by - the deal.II authors, and there are restrictions - on its use. We will give some hints on license issues first. The - legally binding license is the Q Public - License (QPL) at the bottom of this page. Furthermore, deal.II - distributions come bundled with some third party software for which - the deal.II authors do not own the copyright. The licenses of these - parts are discussed below. + href="http://www.opensource.org" target="_top">Open Source + Initiative. You are thus free to copy and use it, and you have + free access to all source code. +

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