LICENSE

= License =

The majority of the MCViNE software is distributed under a BSD license, 
in accordance with the license policy of the DANSE project.

This software is part of the open-source DANSE project at the California
Institute of Technology, and is available subject to the conditions and
terms laid out below. By downloading and using this software you are
agreeing to the following conditions.


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If you use this software to do productive scientific research that leads to
publication, please acknowledge use of the software by citing the
following paper in your publication:

    Jiao Y. Y. Lin, Michael Aivazis, and Brent Fultz, 
    ''MCViNE: Monte Carlo VItual Neutron Experiment'', http://mcvine.github.io (unpublished)


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==== License for the McStas adaptation package ====

In MCViNE, an adaptation package for [http://mcstas.org McStas] is under GPL license. 
See https://github.com/mcvine/mcvine/blob/master/packages/legacycomponents/mcstas2/README 
for more details.