current version: FLUKA 2006.3b, March'07 - last respin Jan'08
Please read the FLUKA user license carefully before you proceed to
download the FLUKA program. In order to be able to continue with the download procedure you are
required to accept the terms/conditions of the FLUKA user license (at the bottom of
this page).
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FLUKA User license
FLUKA User license:
By downloading and/or using FLUKA, you agree with the
following license/conditions/requests:
Copyright statement and license conditions
Copyright Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
(INFN) and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
("the FLUKA copyright holders"), 1989-2007.
All rights not expressly granted under this license are
reserved.
This software results from work performed by Alberto Fasso`,
Alfredo Ferrari, Johannes Ranft and Paola Sala.
INFN and CERN are the exclusive source of distribution of
the code, bug fixes and documentation of the FLUKA
software. Each official version of FLUKA is identified by a
numbering scheme specifying major and minor releases.
The FLUKA Coordination Committee or its delegates are able
to grant any of the permissions noted in this License
Agreement as requiring a specific consent. Any such consent
may only be granted in writing.
Installation, use, reproduction, display of the FLUKA
software ("FLUKA"), in source and binary forms, are
permitted free of charge on a non-exclusive basis for
internal scientific, non-commercial and non-weapon-related
use by non-profit organizations only. Any exercise of these
rights is subject to the following conditions:
1 Insertion of the FLUKA code, in whole or in part, into
other codes, or its translation into any other computer
language are possible only after obtaining prior written
permission. Modifications of the FLUKA code are permitted
for use by the licensee only, unless authorized in
written.
2 FLUKA is non-transferable, non-sub-licensable and may not
be distributed in any way, without express written
consent, whether in original or modified form. Site-wise
or collaboration-wise conditions can be agreed with the
FLUKA Coordination Committee.
3 Notwithstanding the above, the licensee may modify and
sub-license FLUKA User Routines to third parties in so far
as their purpose is limited to the adaptation of input and
output interfaces of FLUKA and their modification does not
circumvent, replace, add to or modify any of the functions
of FLUKA, or extract specific isolated results from any of
the individual internal physics models embedded within
FLUKA.
4 The licensee shall forthwith license all its modifications
of FLUKA to the FLUKA copyright holders, at no cost and
with no limitation of use. The licensee acknowledges that
the FLUKA copyright holders may insert such modifications
into future releases of FLUKA, subject to appropriate
acknowledgment of the licensee's contribution.
5 Any publication by the licensee with respect to FLUKA or
results obtained from it shall explicitly acknowledge
FLUKA by quoting its set of references and the FLUKA
copyright holders. The licensee shall not without prior
written permission publish documents or results based on a
modified form of FLUKA, unless the modification
exclusively concerns User Routines for the adaptation of
its input and output interfaces which comply with the same
restrictions, as defined in section 3) as those which
apply to sub-licensing. Any publication of documents or
results shall be based only on official FLUKA versions as
obtained from the FLUKA website (http://www.fluka.org) or
from any authorized mirror. Publication here implies any
legal publication to any third party, whether verbal,
electronic, visual, in writing or otherwise.
6 The licensee shall ensure that the FLUKA references,
copyright statement and license conditions are not altered
or removed from FLUKA. Any integration of any portion of
FLUKA, in modified or in unmodified form, into any other
software package must preserve the internal copyright
notices in those portions of FLUKA that have been
employed, and must reproduce such notices within any
additional global notices included along or embedded
within the software into which FLUKA has been
integrated. Any portion of FLUKA so integrated, whether
modified or unmodified shall continue to be subject to
these license conditions.
7 Nothing in this license shall be construed as to grant any
rights in any of the FLUKA versions since 1989. In
addition, users are not permitted to circumvent any
protection in prior distributions of FLUKA that provided
for a preset expiration date of the code
8 Versions or parts of the FLUKA source code, entrusted to
individuals or groups prior to the enactment of the
CERN-INFN Collaboration Agreement, which are listed in
Chapter 5 of Annex 1 of the EP-AB-INFN Scientific
Agreement (19-02-2003), together with the agreed
conditions of use, are subject to this License Agreement
in addition to any other restrictions on the scope of use
that may have been part of the initial use grant.
9 Commercial use of FLUKA, outside the scope of this
license, must be negotiated with the copyright holders
10 DISCLAIMER
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE FLUKA COPYRIGHT HOLDERS "AS
IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF
SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
OR USE ARE DISCLAIMED. THE FLUKA COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THE
AUTHORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE SOFTWARE AND
MODIFICATIONS THEREOF, WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY PATENT,
COPYRIGHT, TRADE SECRET OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT.
11 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE FLUKA COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THE AUTHORS SHALL HAVE NO
LIABILITY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY
CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY
OF CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT
LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
REQUESTS MADE BY THE FLUKA AUTHORS TO ALL USERS
All licensees are requested to report as soon as practical
to the Authors any errors or bugs found in any portion of
FLUKA and its accompanying documentation.
All licensees are requested to forward copies of all
comparisons that they may make between FLUKA results and
data or other codes as soon as practical. The Authors agree
to keep any such communications confidential unless
otherwise notified by the contributing user.
The Authors reserve the right of publishing any benchmarking
and/or comparisons of the distinct separate performance of
the individual internal models that are embedded into FLUKA,
whether the comparisons are with data or with other
codes. The Authors would also like to convey a general
willingness to conduct any such benchmarking efforts either
upon request or in collaboration with interested parties. In
case of doubt please contact the Authors.
Users should exclusively download FLUKA from the official
FLUKA website (http://www.fluka.org) or one of the
authorized mirror sites. Users are invited to regularly
update their FLUKA version to profit for improvements and
bug fixes.
Users are invited to use reasonably updated versions of the
code for publications. Publications of results based on
those FLUKA versions that are declared unsupported and
obsolete on the official FLUKA website shall be avoided.
Users should address any request of consent to one member of
the FLUKA Coordinating Committee, which at present is
composed as follows:
Giuseppe Battistoni Giuseppe.Battistoni@mi.infn.it (chairman)
John Ferguson John.Ferguson@cern.ch
John Harvey John.Harvey@cern.ch
Johannes Ranft Johannes.Ranft@cern.ch
Paola Sala Paola.Sala@mi.infn.it
In accordance with the User License, the use of the FLUKA code
shall be acknowledged explicitly by quoting the following and
only the following set of references:
- A. Fasso', A. Ferrari, J. Ranft, and P.R. Sala,
"FLUKA: a multi-particle transport code",
CERN 2005-10 (2005), INFN/TC_05/11, SLAC-R-773
- A. Fasso', A. Ferrari, S. Roesler, P.R. Sala, G. Battistoni,
F. Cerutti, E. Gadioli, M.V. Garzelli, F. Ballarini,
A. Ottolenghi, A. Empl and J. Ranft,
"The physics models of FLUKA: status and recent developments",
Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2003 Conference
(CHEP2003), La Jolla, CA, USA, March 24-28, 2003,
(paper MOMT005) eConf C0303241 (2003), arXiv:hep-ph/0306267
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For questions/clarifications/problems about the license or in general the use of FLUKA please contact the chairman of the joint INFN/CERN FLUKA steering committee:
Prof. Giuseppe Battistoni
INFN - Via Celoria 16 I-20133 Milano (Italy)
Giuseppe.Battistoni@mi.infn.it
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