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Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 RiskMap srl</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Nicolas Di Césaré
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Sadruddin Rejeb</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Decillion Pty(Ltd)
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Copyright (C) 2003 Kawanishi Tomoya</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2004 FIMAT Group
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Copyright (C) 2004 Mike Parker
Copyright (C) 2004 Walter Penschke
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Copyright (C) 2005 Gary Kennedy
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Copyright (C) 2005 Charles Whitmore</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Banca Profilo S.p.A.
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Copyright (C) 2006 Warren Chou
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Cristina Duminuco
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Giorgio Facchinetti
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Chiara Fornarola
Copyright (C) 2006 Silvia Frasson
Copyright (C) 2006 Richard Gould
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Mark Joshi
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 Allen Kuo
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Roland Lichters
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Katiuscia Manzoni
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Mario Pucci
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 François du Vignaud</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2007 Affine Group Limited
Copyright (C) 2007 Richard Gomes
Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Laurent Hoffmann
Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Chris Kenyon
Copyright (C) 2007 Gang Liang</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Jose Aparicio
Copyright (C) 2008 Yee Man Chan
Copyright (C) 2008, 2011 Charles Chongseok Hyun
Copyright (C) 2008 Piero Del Boca
Copyright (C) 2008 Paul Farrington
Copyright (C) 2008 Lorella Fatone
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Andreas Gaida
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Copyright (C) 2008 Florent Grenier
Copyright (C) 2008 Frank Hövermann
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Copyright (C) 2008 Francesca Mariani
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Master IMAFA - Polytech'Nice Sophia - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
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Copyright (C) 2008 J. Erik Radmall
Copyright (C) 2008 Maria Cristina Recchioni
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Ralph Schreyer
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Copyright (C) 2008 Francesco Zirilli</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2009 Nathan Abbott
Copyright (C) 2009 Sylvain Bertrand
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Copyright (C) 2009 Sun Xiuxin</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2010 Kakhkhor Abdijalilov
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Copyright (C) 2010 Manas Bhatt
Copyright (C) 2010 DeriveXperts SAS
Copyright (C) 2010 Cavit Hafizoglu
Copyright (C) 2010 Michael Heckl
Copyright (C) 2010 Liquidnet Holdings Inc.
Copyright (C) 2010 Slava Mazur
Copyright (C) 2010 Adrian O' Neill
Copyright (C) 2010 Robert Philipp
Copyright (C) 2010 Alessandro Roveda
Copyright (C) 2010 SunTrust Bank</pre><pre> Copyright (C) 2011 Fabien Le Floc'h</pre><pre>QuantLib includes code taken from Peter Jäckel's book "Monte Carlo
Methods in Finance".</pre><pre>QuantLib includes software developed by the University of Chicago,
as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.</pre><pre>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:</pre><pre> Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.</pre><pre> Neither the names of the copyright holders nor the names of the QuantLib
Group and its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without specific prior written permission.</pre><pre>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
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<p>QuantLib is Non-Copylefted Free Software [1] released under the modified BSD License [2] (also know as XFree86-style license).</p>
<p>QuantLib is Open Source [3] because of its license: it is OSI Certified Open Source Software [4]. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative [5].</p>
<p>The modified BSD License is GPL compatible as confirmed by the Free Software Foundation [6].</p>
<p>This license has been adopted to allow free use of QuantLib and its source, to make QuantLib flourish as a free-software/open-source project. It allows proprietary extensions to be commercialized.</p>
<p>[1] <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware</a><br/>
[2] <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html">http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html</a><br/>
[3] <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html">http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html</a><br/>
[4] <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html">http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.html</a><br/>
[5] <a href="http://www.opensource.org">http://www.opensource.org</a><br/>
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