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OSCARS

Open Source Code for Advanced Radiation Simulation

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OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT

Copyright © 2016, Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC Brookhaven National Laboratory 

“OSCARS” is distributed subject to the following license conditions:

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
        Software: OSCARS 

1. The "Software", below, refers to the aforementioned OSCARS (in either source 
   code, or binary form and accompanying documentation)

Each licensee is addressed as "you" or "Licensee."

2. The copyright holder shown above hereby grants Licensee a royalty-free
   nonexclusive license, subject to the limitations stated herein and U.S.
   Government license rights.

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           Software License Agreement.
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4. You may modify a copy or copies of the Software or any portion of it, thus
   forming a work based on the Software, and distribute copies of such work
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        d. Neither the name of Brookhaven Science Associates or Brookhaven
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5. The Software resulted from work developed under a U.S. Government Contract
   No. DE-SC0012704 and are subject to the following license:  the U.S.
   Government is granted for itself and others acting on its behalf a paid-up,
   nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in this computer software and
   data to reproduce, prepare derivative works, and perform publicly and display
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END OF LICENSE

Last modified: 01 December 2016.

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