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     Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 RiskMap srl
 

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     Copyright (C) 2009 Sun Xiuxin
 

 QuantLib includes code taken from Peter Jäckel's book 'Monte Carlo
 Methods in Finance'.
 

 QuantLib includes software developed by the University of Chicago,
 as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.
 

 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 names of the copyright holders nor the names of the QuantLib
     Group and 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 HOLDERS 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.


 

QuantLib is Non-Copylefted Free Software [1] released under the modified BSD License [2] (also know as XFree86-style license).

QuantLib is Open Source [3] because of its license: it is OSI Certified Open Source Software [4]. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative [5].

The modified BSD License is GPL compatible as confirmed by the Free Software Foundation [6].

This license has been adopted to allow free use of QuantLib and its source, to make QuantLib flourish as a free-software/open-source project. It allows proprietary extensions to be commercialized.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware

 [2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html

 [3] http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html

 [4] http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html

 [5] http://www.opensource.org

 [6] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html