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6       license - QuantLib License
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8       QuantLib is
9           Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 RiskMap srl
10           Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 StatPro Italia srl
11           Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Ferdinando Ametrano
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13           Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Nicolas Di Césaré
14           Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Sadruddin Rejeb
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16           Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Decillion Pty(Ltd)
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18           Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007 Neil Firth
19           Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Roman Gitlin
20           Copyright (C) 2003 Niels Elken Sønderby
21           Copyright (C) 2003 Kawanishi Tomoya
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23           Copyright (C) 2004 FIMAT Group
24           Copyright (C) 2004 M-Dimension Consulting Inc.
25           Copyright (C) 2004 Mike Parker
26           Copyright (C) 2004 Walter Penschke
27           Copyright (C) 2004 Gianni Piolanti
28           Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Klaus Spanderen
29           Copyright (C) 2004 Jeff Yu
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31           Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Toyin Akin
32           Copyright (C) 2005 Sercan Atalik
33           Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Theo Boafo
34           Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Piter Dias
35           Copyright (C) 2005 Gary Kennedy
36           Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Joseph Wang
37           Copyright (C) 2005 Charles Whitmore
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39           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Banca Profilo S.p.A.
40           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Marco Bianchetti
41           Copyright (C) 2006 Yiping Chen
42           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Warren Chou
43           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Cristina Duminuco
44           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Giorgio Facchinetti
45           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Chiara Fornarola
46           Copyright (C) 2006 Silvia Frasson
47           Copyright (C) 2006 Richard Gould
48           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Mark Joshi
49           Copyright (C) 2006 Allen Kuo
50           Copyright (C) 2006 Roland Lichters
51           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Katiuscia Manzoni
52           Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Mario Pucci
53           Copyright (C) 2006 François du Vignaud
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55           Copyright (C) 2007 Affine Group Limited
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57       QuantLib includes code taken from Peter Jäckel's book 'Monte Carlo
58       Methods in Finance'.
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60       QuantLib includes software developed by the University of Chicago,
61       as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.
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63       Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
64       modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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66           Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
67           this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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69           Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
70           this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
71           and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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73           Neither the names of the copyright holders nor the names of the QuantLib
74           Group and its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
75           derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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77       THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 'AS IS'
78       AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
79       IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
80       DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
81       FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
82       DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
83       SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
84       CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
85       OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
86       OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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89       QuantLib is Non-Copylefted Free Software [1] released under the
90       modified BSD License [2] (also know as XFree86-style license).
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92       QuantLib is Open Source [3] because of its license: it is OSI Certified
93       Open Source Software [4]. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the
94       Open Source Initiative [5].
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96       The modified BSD License is GPL compatible as confirmed by the Free
97       Software Foundation [6].
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99       This license has been adopted to allow free use of QuantLib and its
100       source, to make QuantLib flourish as a free-software/open-source
101       project. It allows proprietary extensions to be commercialized.
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103       [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-
104       CopyleftedFreeSoftware
105        [2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html
106        [3] http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html
107        [4] http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html
108        [5] http://www.opensource.org
109        [6] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
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