QMCPACK:General disclaimer

From QMCPACK

Jump to: navigation, search

QMCPACK: This C++ QMC code was developed at University of Illinois and is designed for high-performance computers. It implements advanced QMC algorithms and is parallelized with both MPI and OpenMP. Generic programming enabled by templates in C++ is extensively utilized to achieve high efficiency.

The development of QMCPACK is funded by the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy.

[edit] QMCPACK License

The softwares are released under UIUC/NCSA Open Source License.

  • Special notes for ohmms/qmcpack developers and end-users:
    • The original programs developed by Jeongnim Kim and her collaborators are distributed under UIUC/NCSA Open Source License (below).
    • Some packages/features are not available under open source license and require separate license agreements with the authors. Contact the responsible authors.
    • autoconf/automake scripts are distributed under GPL (see COPYING)
    • Software derived from any package distributed under GPL contains explicit acknowledgments of the original works and are distributed under GPL (see COPYING).
    • The license terms of the packages that are integerated into ohmms distribution can be found in README.pkg files in the top-level directory of each package.


[edit] The text version of the license

                 University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

Copyright (c) 2003, University of Illinois Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.

Developed by: 

 Jeongnim Kim
 National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois
 Materials computation Center, University of Illinois
 http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/qmcpack/


Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ``Software), to deal with the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 

       * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
         notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
       * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
         notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in
         the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
         distribution.
       * Neither the names of the NCSA, the MCC, the University of Illinois,
         nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote
         products derived from this Software without specific prior written
         permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.

Retrieved from "http://cms.mcc.uiuc.edu/qmcpack/index.php/QMCPACK:General_disclaimer"
Personal tools