LICENSE.md

PIConGPU - Licenses

Copyright 2009-2016 Florian Berninger, Heiko Burau, Michael Bussmann, Alexander Debus, Robert Dietrich, Carlchristian Eckert, Wen Fu, Marco Garten, Anton Helm, Wolfgang Hoehnig, Axel Huebl, Maximilian Knespel, Remi Lehe, Richard Pausch, Felix Schmitt, Conrad Schumann, Benjamin Schneider, Joseph Schuchart, Klaus Steiniger, Rene Widera, Benjamin Worpitz

See active team.

PIConGPU is a program collection containing the main simulation, independent scripts and auxiliary libraries. If not stated otherwise explicitly, the following licenses apply:

PIConGPU

The main simulation is licensed under the GPLv3+. See COPYING. If not stated otherwise explicitly, that affects:

• buildsystem
• examples
• doc
• src/picongpu
• src/tools (without splash2txt)
• src/mpiInfo

PMacc & splash2txt

All libraries are dual licensed under the GLPv3+ and LGPLv3+. See COPYING and COPYING.LESSER. If not stated otherwise explicitly, that affects:

• src/libPMacc
• src/tools/splash2txt

Third party software and other licenses

We include a list of (GPL-) compatible third party software for the sake of an easier install of PIConGPU. Contributions to these parts of the repository should not be made in the thirdParty/ directory but in their according repositories (that we import).

• thirdParty/mallocMC: mallocMC is a fast memory allocator for many core accelerators and was originally forked from the ScatterAlloc project. It is licensed under the MIT License. Please visit https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/mallocMC for further details and contributions.

• thirdParty/cmake-modules: we published a set of useful CMake modules that are not in the CMake mainline under the ISC license at https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/cmake-modules for contributions or inclusion in PIConGPU and other projects.

• thirdParty/cuda_memtest: CUDA MemTest is an independent program developed by the University Illinois, published under the Illinois Open Source License. Please refer to the file thirdParty/cuda_memtest/README for license information. We redistribute this modified version of CUDA MemTest under the same license thirdParty/cuda_memtest/README. The original release was published at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest and our modified version is hosted at https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/cuda_memtest for further reference.