License¶
Kapteyn Package¶
The Kapteyn Package is provided under the following license:
Copyright (c) 2010-20123, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University
of Groningen. 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 the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute 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.
Please cite the Kapteyn Package¶
If you have used the Kapteyn Package in the preparation of a publication, please cite. We need these citations to justify time and resources spent on the software.
You may cite it as follows (BibTeX format):
@MANUAL{KapteynPackage,
organization = "{Kapteyn Astronomical Institute}",
author = {{Terlouw}, J.~P. and {Vogelaar}, M.~G.~R.},
title = "{Kapteyn Package, version 3.4}",
year = 2014,
month = dec,
address = "Groningen",
note = "Available from \url{http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/}"
}
WCSLIB¶
WCSLIB, which is included in the Kapteyn Package’s distribution, is provided under the following license:
WCSLIB 4.24 - an implementation of the FITS WCS standard.
Copyright (C) 1995-2014, Mark Calabretta
WCSLIB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
WCSLIB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for
more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with WCSLIB. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
Direct correspondence concerning WCSLIB to mark@calabretta.id.au
Author: Mark Calabretta, Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Mark.Calabretta
MPFIT¶
MPFIT’s implementation in C, of which a modified version is included, is provided under the following license:
MPFIT: A MINPACK-1 Least Squares Fitting Library in C
Original public domain version by B. Garbow, K. Hillstrom, J. More'
(Argonne National Laboratory, MINPACK project, March 1980)
Copyright (1999) University of Chicago
(see below)
Tranlation to C Language by S. Moshier (moshier.net)
(no restrictions placed on distribution)
Enhancements and packaging by C. Markwardt
(comparable to IDL fitting routine MPFIT
see http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html)
Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 Craig B. Markwardt
This software is provided as is without any warranty whatsoever.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute modified or
unmodified copies is granted, provided this copyright and disclaimer
are included unchanged.
Source code derived from MINPACK must have the following disclaimer
text provided.
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Minpack Copyright Notice (1999) University of Chicago. All rights reserved
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
without modification, are permitted provided that the
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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above
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disclaimer.
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3. The end-user documentation included with the
redistribution, if any, must include the following
acknowledgment:
"This product includes software developed by the
University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne National
Laboratory.
Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software
itself, if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments
normally appear.
4. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. THE SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER, THE
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