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7 Text equivalent to the following appears at the end of every SOFA
8 routine. (There are small formatting differences between the Fortran
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14 * Standards Of Fundamental Astronomy Board
15 * of the International Astronomical Union.
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18 * SOFA Software License
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23 * BY USING THIS SOFTWARE YOU ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING SIX TERMS AND
24 * CONDITIONS WHICH APPLY TO ITS USE.
26 * 1. The Software is owned by the IAU SOFA Board ("SOFA").
28 * 2. Permission is granted to anyone to use the SOFA software for any
29 * purpose, including commercial applications, free of charge and
30 * without payment of royalties, subject to the conditions and
31 * restrictions listed below.
33 * 3. You (the user) may copy and distribute SOFA source code to others,
34 * and use and adapt its code and algorithms in your own software,
35 * on a world-wide, royalty-free basis. That portion of your
36 * distribution that does not consist of intact and unchanged copies
37 * of SOFA source code files is a "derived work" that must comply
38 * with the following requirements:
40 * a) Your work shall be marked or carry a statement that it
41 * (i) uses routines and computations derived by you from
42 * software provided by SOFA under license to you; and
43 * (ii) does not itself constitute software provided by and/or
46 * b) The source code of your derived work must contain descriptions
47 * of how the derived work is based upon, contains and/or differs
48 * from the original SOFA software.
50 * c) The name(s) of all routine(s) in your derived work shall not
51 * include the prefix "iau" or "sofa" or trivial modifications
52 * thereof such as changes of case.
54 * d) The origin of the SOFA components of your derived work must
55 * not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the
56 * original software, nor file a patent application for SOFA
57 * software or algorithms embedded in the SOFA software.
59 * e) These requirements must be reproduced intact in any source
60 * distribution and shall apply to anyone to whom you have
61 * granted a further right to modify the source code of your
64 * Note that, as originally distributed, the SOFA software is
65 * intended to be a definitive implementation of the IAU standards,
66 * and consequently third-party modifications are discouraged. All
67 * variations, no matter how minor, must be explicitly marked as
68 * such, as explained above.
70 * 4. You shall not cause the SOFA software to be brought into
71 * disrepute, either by misuse, or use for inappropriate tasks, or
72 * by inappropriate modification.
74 * 5. The SOFA software is provided "as is" and SOFA makes no warranty
75 * as to its use or performance. SOFA does not and cannot warrant
76 * the performance or results which the user may obtain by using the
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79 * fitness for any particular purpose. In no event will SOFA be
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81 * damages, including any lost profits or lost savings, even if a
82 * SOFA representative has been advised of such damages, or for any
83 * claim by any third party.
85 * 6. The provision of any version of the SOFA software under the terms
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87 * versions will also be made available under the same terms and
90 * In any published work or commercial product which uses the SOFA
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