GosSiP Software License
Version 1.0, 30 July 2012

Copyright (c) HEP Detectors Group - Kirchhoff-Institute  for  Physics (Heidelberg University).

All rights not expressly granted under this license are reserved.

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 based on the GosSiP software  framework (www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/hep-detektoren/gossip).' If that is where third-party acknowledgments normally appear, this acknowledgment must be reproduced in the modified version of this software itself.

3. The name 'GosSiP' may not be used to endorse or promote software, or products derived therefrom. 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 Copyright Holders 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. By using, copying, modifying or distributing the software (or any work based on the software) you agree to acknowledge its use  in resulting scientific publications.

7. DISCLAIMER

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS '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 AUTHOR MAKES NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE SOFTWARE AND MODIFICATIONS THEREOF, WILL NOT INFRINGE AN  PATENT, COPYRIGHT, TRADE SECRET OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT.

8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THE AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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.

9. 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 Copyright Holder with regard to this software.