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Geant4 Software License
Version 1.0, 28 June 2006
Copyright (c) Copyright Holders of the Geant4 Collaboration, 1994-2006.
See http://cern.ch/geant4/license for details on the copyright holders. All
rights not expressly granted under this license are reserved.
This software includes voluntary contributions made to Geant4.
See http://cern.ch/geant4 for more information on Geant4.
Installation, use, reproduction, display, modification and redistribution of
this software, with or without modification, in source and binary forms, are
permitted on a non-exclusive basis. Any exercise of rights by you under this
license is subject to the following conditions:
1. Redistributions of this software, in whole or in part, with or without
modification, must reproduce the above copyright notice and these license
conditions in this software, the user documentation and any other
materials provided with the redistributed software.
2. The user documentation,if any,included with a redistribution,must include
the following notice:"This product includes software developed by Members
of the Geant4 Collaboration ( http://cern.ch/geant4 )."
If that is where third-party acknowledgments normally appear, this
acknowledgment must be reproduced in the modified version of this
software itself.
3. The names "Geant4" and "The Geant4 toolkit" may not be used to endorse or
promote software,or products derived therefrom, except with prior written
permission by license@geant4.org. If this software is redistributed in
modified form, the name and reference of the modified version must be
clearly distinguishable from that of this software.
4. You are under no obligation to provide anyone with any modifications of
this software that you may develop,including but not limited to bug fixes,
patches, upgrades or other enhancements or derivatives of the features,
functionality or performance of this software. However, if you publish or
distribute your modifications without contemporaneously requiring users
to enter into a separate written license agreement, then you are deemed
to have granted all Members and all Copyright Holders of the Geant4
Collaboration a license to your modifications, including modifications
protected by any patent owned by you,under the conditions of this license.
5. You may not include this software in whole or in part in any patent or
patent application in respect of any modification of this software
developed by you.
6. DISCLAIMER
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE MEMBERS AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OF THE GEANT4
COLLABORATION AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF
SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE ARE
DISCLAIMED. THE MEMBERS OF THE GEANT4 COLLABORATION AND CONTRIBUTORS MAKE NO
REPRESENTATION THAT THE SOFTWARE AND MODIFICATIONS THEREOF,WILL NOT INFRINGE
ANY PATENT, COPYRIGHT, TRADE SECRET OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE MEMBERS AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OF THE GEANT4 COLLABORATION AND
CONTRIBUTORS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR DIRECT,INDIRECT,SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE,
DATA OR PROFITS, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY
OF CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR
OTHERWISE, ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
8. This license shall terminate with immediate effect and without notice if
you fail to comply with any of the terms of this license, or if you
institute litigation against any Member or Copyright Holder of the Geant4
Collaboration with regard to this software.