.. _kotori-license:

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License
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Source code
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This software is copyright © 2013-2023 The Kotori Developers. All rights reserved.

The source code of Kotori is licensed under the terms of the
`GNU Affero General Public License`_ and the `European Union Public Licence`_.
Please also have a look at the `notices about licenses of third-party components`_.

It is and will always be **free and open source software**.

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    Kotori is a data acquisition, processing and graphing toolkit.

    Copyright (C) 2013-2023 The Kotori Developers <developers@getkotori.org>.

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of
    the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
    along with this program, see file "agpl-3.0.txt".
    If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


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Integration libraries and example programs
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The source code of adapter libraries and corresponding example code
is licensed under the terms of the `GNU Lesser General Public License`_,
so it can be used within proprietary software.


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Documentation
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The documentation is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons `CC-BY-SA 4.0 license`_.


.. _GNU Affero General Public License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
.. _GNU Lesser General Public License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html
.. _European Union Public Licence: https://opensource.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2
.. _CC-BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
.. _notices about licenses of third-party components: https://github.com/daq-tools/kotori/blob/main/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.rst