LICENSE.md

PIConGPU - Licenses

Copyright 2009-2018 (in alphabetical order)

Sergei Bastrakov, Florian Berninger, Heiko Burau, Michael Bussmann, Alexander Debus, Robert Dietrich, Carlchristian Eckert, Wen Fu, Marco Garten, Ilja Goethel, Alexander Grund, Sebastian Hahn, Anton Helm, Wolfgang Hoehnig, Axel Huebl, Jeffrey Kelling, Maximilian Knespel, Remi Lehe, Alexander Matthes, Richard Pausch, Sophie Rudat, Felix Schmitt, Conrad Schumann, Benjamin Schneider, Joseph Schuchart, Sebastian Starke, Klaus Steiniger, Rene Widera, Benjamin Worpitz

See active team.

PIConGPU is a program collection containing the main simulation, independent scripts and auxiliary libraries. If not stated otherwise explicitly, the following licenses apply:

PIConGPU

The main simulation is licensed under the GPLv3+. See COPYING. If not stated otherwise explicitly, that affects:

• buildsystem
• etc/picongpu
• include/picongpu
• lib/python/picongpu
• share/picongpu
• src/tools (without splash2txt)
• src/mpiInfo
• test

PMacc & splash2txt

All libraries are licensed under the LGPLv3+. See COPYING.LESSER. If not stated otherwise explicitly, that affects:

• include/pmacc
• share/pmacc
• src/tools/splash2txt

Documentation

Documentation is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for the license.

If not stated otherwise explicitly, that affects files in:

• docs

Third party software and other licenses

We include a list of (GPL-) compatible third party software for the sake of an easier install of PIConGPU. Contributions to these parts of the repository should not be made in the thirdParty/ directory but in their according repositories (that we import).

• thirdParty/alpaka: alpaka is a header-only C++11 abstraction library for parallel kernel development on accelerator hardware. It provides a single-source, performance portable programming model for PIConGPU and PMacc. Please visit https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/alpaka for further details and contributions.

• thirdParty/mallocMC: mallocMC is a fast memory allocator for many core accelerators and was originally forked from the ScatterAlloc project. It is licensed under the MIT License. Please visit https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/mallocMC for further details and contributions.

• thirdParty/cmake-modules: we published a set of useful CMake modules that are not in the CMake mainline under the ISC license at https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/cmake-modules for contributions or inclusion in PIConGPU and other projects.

• thirdParty/cuda_memtest: CUDA MemTest is an independent program developed by the University Illinois, published under the Illinois Open Source License. Please refer to the file thirdParty/cuda_memtest/README for license information. We redistribute this modified version of CUDA MemTest under the same license thirdParty/cuda_memtest/README. The original release was published at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest and our modified version is hosted at https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/cuda_memtest for further reference.

• thirdParty/cupla: cupla is a simple user interface for alpaka. It provides a software layer that follows a similar concept as the Nvidia CUDA API, allowing to write kernels more efficiently. Please visit https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/cupla for further details and contributions.