1 2/*! \page license QuantLib License 3 4\verbinclude LICENSE.TXT 5 6<hr> 7\section licensecomments Comments on Copyright and License 8 9%QuantLib is Non-Copylefted Free Software [1] released under the modified BSD 10License [2] (also know as XFree86-style license). 11 12%QuantLib is Open Source [3] because of its license: it is OSI Certified Open 13Source Software [4]. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source 14Initiative [5]. 15 16The modified BSD License is GPL compatible as confirmed by the Free Software 17Foundation [6]. 18 19This license has been adopted to allow free use of %QuantLib and its source, to 20make %QuantLib flourish as a free-software/open-source project. It allows 21proprietary extensions to be commercialized. 22 23[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware<br> 24[2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html<br> 25[3] http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html<br> 26[4] http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html<br> 27[5] http://www.opensource.org<br> 28[6] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html 29*/ 30