Overview

ug4 uses some external libraries. Some of them are inculded in the ug4 sources, some have to be downloaded and compiled separately.

Here is a short overview of the libraries included in the sources. All those libraries have a license, which allows to use and distribute them even for commercial purposes.

Libraries which can be used by ug4, but are not part of the source-distribution due to license restrictions or due to their size are the following:

boost (Boost Software License)
mpi (different licenses)
tetgen (free for non-commercial use)

Licenses

As required by some licenses, the full license text for the respectice libraries included in the source distribution is given below. Please note that those licenses only apply to the respective libraries.

Linenoise

* Copyright (c) 2010, Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez at gmail dot com>
* 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.
* 
* Neither the name of Redis nor the names of its contributors may be used
* to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
* specific prior written permission.
*
* 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 OWNER 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.

Lua

* Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.  All rights reserved.
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
* a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
* "Software"), to deal in 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:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
* included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
*
* 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 AUTHORS 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 IN THE SOFTWARE.

Metis

The METIS package is copyrighted by the Regents of the University of
Minnesota. It can be freely used for educational and research purposes 
by non-profit institutions and US government agencies only. Other 
organizations are allowed to use METIS only for evaluation purposes,
and any further uses will require prior approval. The software 
may not be sold or redistributed without prior approval. One may 
make copies of the software for their use provided that the copies, 
are not sold or distributed, are used under the same terms and 
conditions. 

As unestablished research software, this code is provided on an 
``as is'' basis without warranty of any kind, either expressed or 
implied. The downloading, or executing any part of this software 
constitutes an implicit agreement to these terms. These terms and 
conditions are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

Approval to use and distribute Metis within ug4 both for educational and commercial purposes has been granted.

ParMetis

The ParMETIS/METIS package is copyrighted by the Regents of the 
University of Minnesota. It can be freely used for educational and 
research purposes by non-profit institutions and US government 
agencies only. Other organizations are allowed to use ParMETIS/METIS 
only for evaluation purposes, and any further uses will require prior 
approval. The software may not be sold or redistributed without prior 
approval. One may make copies of the software for their use provided 
that the copies, are not sold or distributed, are used under the same 
terms and conditions.

As unestablished research software, this code is provided on an 
``as is'' basis without warranty of any kind, either expressed or
implied. The downloading, or executing any part of this software
constitutes an implicit agreement to these terms. These terms and
conditions are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

Approval to use and distribute ParMetis within ug4 has been granted for non-commercial use only. If a license for commercial use is required, one may obtain it directly from the University of Minnesota.

RapidXML

Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Marcin Kalicinski

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
do so, all subject to the following:

The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
a source language processor.

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, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Shiny Profiler

The zlib/libpng License

Copyright (c) 2007 Aidin Abedi (www.*)

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In 
no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use 
of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including 
commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to 
the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim 
     that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, 
     an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is 
     not required.

  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be 
     misrepresented as being the original software.

  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

lineintersect_utils

* Copyright (C) Graham Rhodes, 2001. 
* All rights reserved worldwide.
*
* This software is provided "as is" without express or implied
* warranties. You may freely copy and compile this source into
* applications you distribute provided that the copyright text
* below is included in the resulting source code, for example:
* "Portions Copyright (C) Graham Rhodes, 2001"

tribox

* Copyright (C) Dan Ginsburg, 2000. 
* All rights reserved worldwide.
*
* This software is provided "as is" without express or implied
* warranties. You may freely copy and compile this source into
* applications you distribute provided that the copyright text
* below is included in the resulting source code, for example:
* "Portions Copyright (C) Dan Ginsburg, 2000"

tritri

* Triangle/triangle intersection test routine,
* by Tomas Moller, 1997.
* See article "A Fast Triangle-Triangle Intersection Test",
* Journal of Graphics Tools, 2(2), 1997