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Copyright (c) 1991-2014, UChicago Argonne, LLC and the PETSc Development Team All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
This license DOES NOT apply to any software that may be obtained via the --download-package option of the PETSc configuration. Each of those packages are covered by their own licenses.
Contributing
Contributions are preferred via Bitbucket pull request to https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc or via patches (git send-email or git format-patch) sent to [email protected]. If you are planning a large contribution, we encourage you to discuss the concept on the mailing list and interact with us frequently to ensure that your effort is well-directed. See the Development Wiki for further details.
PETSc is distributed under a 2-clause BSD license (see above). The act of submitting a pull request or patch (with or without an explicit Signed-off-by tag) will be understood as an affirmation of the following:
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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Old License
Previous versions of PETSc were distributed under the old PETSc license.