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FLUKA 2023.3.3, January 31st 2024
(last respin 2023.3.3)
flair-2.3-0d 13-Sep-2023

News:

-- Fluka Release
( 31.01.2024 )

FLUKA 2023.3.3 has been released.
Next FLUKA Course
The 23rd FLUKA course
will be held at the Lanzhou University, China, on June 1-8, 2024


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                   FLUKA User license

         COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND LICENSE CONDITIONS

FLUKA  is  a  fully integrated  particle  physics Monte Carlo
code.  The  FLUKA  software results  in  particular from work
performed by Alberto Fasso`, Alfredo Ferrari, Johannes Ranft,
Paola Sala  (the "FLUKA Authors"),   and  collaborators  (the
"Collaborators").

The copyright  in  the  FLUKA  software Version 2021.2.3  and
following is vested as following:

Copyright in developments  carried  out after  June 30th 2022
is vested in Alberto Fasso`, Alfredo Ferrari, Paola Sala, and
their collaborators(*). Copyright in developments carried out
in between September 1st 2019  and  June 30th 2022  is vested
in Alberto Fasso`,  Alfredo Ferrari,  their collaborators(*),
and INFN.    Those  parts  which  are  partially  or  totally
copyright of  Alberto Fasso`  and/or  Alfredo Ferrari  and/or
Paola Sala  are  licensed free of charge for use in  FLUKA as
distributed  by the FLUKA Authors(**).
Copyright in developments  carried  out before  September 1st
2019 is vested in INFN and CERN jointly.

Authorship is detailed for every routine in the source  code.

All rights  not  expressly  granted  under  this license  are 
reserved.  Requests for permissions not  granted  under  this
license shall be addressed to the Authors. Any permission may
only be granted in writing.

The Authors are the exclusive source of distribution  of  the
code,  bug  fixes  and  documentation  of the FLUKA  software
version 2021.2.3 and  beyond, and may authorise  distribution
by mirror sites.

This license cancels and replaces  any  prior license  condi-
tions but their warranty and liability provisions shall  con-
tinue to  apply to any use  or  modifications made under such
prior license conditions.

*  Creation date  and  last modification date of each routine
   as well as its authors are indicated in the source code
** A non-exhaustive list of routines and  modules  which  are
   partially or  totally  copyright of  Alberto Fasso` and/or
   Alfredo Ferrari  and/or   Paola Sala is included in the
   LICENSED.routines file.


DEFINITIONS

The FLUKA  software  ("FLUKA")  means  the  fully  integrated
particle  physics  Monte Carlo  simulation  software  package
being  developed  since  1989  by the Authors  and available,
under the  name  "FLUKA",  from  http://www.fluka.org  and/or
mirror sites authorised by the Authors.
FLUKA includes FLUKA core code, and  FLUKA  User Routines (as
defined below).

FLUKA User Routines means the set of subroutines collected in
the usermvax  section  of  FLUKA  and  forming  part  of  the
standard distribution of FLUKA.

The Licensee  means  any  person acting individually within a
non-profit organisation, exercising any permission granted by
this license.

LICENSE GRANT

1.
Subject to the  terms  and  conditions  of this license,  the
FLUKA  Copyright  Holders  herewith  grant to the  Licensee a
worldwide,  non-exclusive,  royalty-free,  source  and object
code  license  to  use  and  reproduce   FLUKA  for  internal
scientific non commercial non-military purposes only. 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Licensee shall not execute
FLUKA in a manner that produces an output whose contents  are
directly useable or easily employable to simulate the physics
models embedded within FLUKA in a generic manner,  or  excise
portions of  FLUKA source or object code,  and  execute  them
independently of FLUKA.  Extracting specific isolated results
from any of the individual internal  physics  models embedded
within FLUKA is not permitted. Permitted use and reproduction
are referred to below as "Use".

2.
Modification (including translation)  of  FLUKA,  in whole or
in part,  is not permitted,  except for modification of FLUKA
User  Routines that do not  circumvent,  replace,  add to  or
modify any of the functions of the FLUKA core code. Permitted
modifications are referred to below as "Modifications".

3.
FLUKA is  licensed for  Use by the  Licensee  only,  and  the
Licensee shall not market,  distribute,  transfer, license or
sub-license, or in any way make available  ("Make Available")
FLUKA  or  Modifications,  in  whole  or  in  part,  to third
parties, without prior written permission. The Licensee shall
not assign or transfer this license.

4.
Notwithstanding section 3,  the Licensee may  Make  Available
his Modifications  of  FLUKA User Routines  to third  parties
under these license conditions.

5.
The  Licensee  shall  not insert FLUKA code or Modifications,
in whole or  in  part, into other codes without prior written
permission.

6.
The Licensee shall not reverse engineer,  decompile, decrypt,
disassemble or otherwise attempt to  derive  the  source code
from the FLUKA binary code or FLUKA data libraries (except as
and only to the  extent  that  any  foregoing  restriction is
prohibited by Law),

7.
Any use of FLUKA outside the scope of this license is subject
to prior written permission.

8.
The Licensee  shall report as soon as practical any errors or
bugs found in any portion of FLUKA to the Authors.

PUBLICATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

9.
The Licensee shall explicitly acknowledge his use of FLUKA in
any publication or communication,  scientific  or  otherwise,
relating to such use,  by  citing the FLUKA set of references
(see below) and the FLUKA copyright notice.

10.
The  Licensee  shall ensure that the FLUKA set of references,
the  FLUKA  copyright notice and these license conditions are
not altered or removed from FLUKA and that all embodiments of
FLUKA  and  Modifications  contain  in  full the FLUKA set of
references,  the FLUKA  copyright  notice,  and these license
conditions.

11.
Any insertion of FLUKA code or Modifications,  in whole or in
part,  into other codes with permission under section 5 shall
preserve the  FLUKA set of references,  the  FLUKA  copyright
notice  and  these  license  conditions in the  FLUKA code or
Modifications concerned, and must also reproduce these within
any  additional  global  notices included  along  or embedded
within  the  software  into  which  the  FLUKA  code  or  the
Modifications have been integrated, in whole or in part.  Any
part of  the FLUKA code  or  Modifications so  inserted shall
continue to be subject to these license conditions.

12.
Publication   of  any  results  of  comparisons  of  specific
internal physics models  extracted from FLUKA with permission
under  section 6  with  data or with other codes or models is
subject to prior written permission.

13.
Contributions  to  any formal code comparisons and validation
exercises pertaining to FLUKA, sponsored by recognised bodies
or   within  the  framework  of  recognised  conferences  and
workshops, are subject to prior written permission.

WARRANTY AND LIABILITY

14.
DISCLAIMER  FLUKA  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  FLUKA  AND MODIFICATIONS
THEREOF WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY PATENT, COPYRIGHT, TRADE SECRET
OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT.

15.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THE  FLUKA COPYRIGHT  HOLDERS AND ANY
CONTRIBUTOR SHALL  HAVE  NO  LIABILITY FOR  DIRECT, INDIRECT,
SPECIAL,  INCIDENTAL,  CONSEQUENTIAL,  EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR
OTHER 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  FLUKA,  EVEN  IF ADVISED  OF  THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES,  AND THE LICENSEE SHALL HOLD THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND ANY CONTRIBUTOR FREE  AND HARMLESS FROM
ANY LIABILITY, INCLUDING CLAIMS BY THIRD PARTIES, IN RELATION
TO SUCH USE.

TERMINATION

16.
This  license  shall  terminate  with  immediate  effect  and
without  notice  if  the Licensee fails to comply with any of
the terms of  this license,  or  if  the  Licensee  initiates
litigation against any of the  FLUKA Copyright Holders or any
contributors with regard to FLUKA.  It  shall  also terminate
with immediate effect from the date on which a new version of
FLUKA  becomes  available.  In either case sections 14 and 15
above shall  continue  to apply to any  Use  or Modifications
made under these license conditions.


  FLUKA set of references, subject to change

"FLUKA: status and perspectives"
F. Ballarini,    G. Battistoni,    N. Belcari,    G. Bisogni,
M. Campanella,   M.P. Carante,     G. Dedes,  P. Degtiarenko,
P. de la Torre Luque,     R. dos Santos Augusto,   A. Fasso`,
A. Fedynitch,   Alfredo Ferrari,   Anna Ferrari,  E. Fiorina,
G. Kharashvili, A. Kraan,  G. Magro,  A. Mairani,  I. Mattei,
M.N. Mazziotta,    M.C. Morone,    S. Mueller,     S. Muraro,
K. Parodi, V. Patera, F. Pennazio, L.S. Pinsky,  R. Rachamin,
R. Luis Ramos,     S. Rollet,     P.R. Sala,    M.S. Leitner,
L. Sarchiapone,    T. Tessonnier,      K. Smeland Ytre-Hauge,
and L. Zana,
in  Proceedings of the "15th Workshop on Shielding Aspects of 
Accelerators, Targets, and Irradiation Facilities" (SATIF15),
East Lansing, Michigan, USA, September 20-23, 2022, in press
 
"FLUKA: a multi-particle transport code" 
A. Ferrari, P.R. Sala, A. Fasso`, and J. Ranft,
CERN-2005-10 (2005), INFN/TC_05/11, SLAC-R-773 

Additional  FLUKA references can be added,  provided they are
relevant for the FLUKA version under consideration.

Note: Copyright  statements contained in individual files re-
      ferring explicitly to one or more of the Authors and/or
      Collaborators,  must  be interpreted as "Copyright INFN
      and CERN, Authors: ...", for the period  1989-September
      1st 2019, as "Copyright Alberto Fasso`, Alfredo Ferrari
      , their collaborators, and INFN, Authors: ... ",   from
      September 1st 2019 to June 30th 2022, and as "Copyright
      Alberto Fasso`, Alfredo Ferrari, Paola Sala,  and their
      collaborators,  Authors: ...",   from  July  1st   2022
      onwards.

Last updated: 13th of September, 2023

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