Elmer - A finite elements software for multiphysical problems
Copyright (C) 1995- , CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.
   
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The Elmer source files consist of the following modules (in alphabetical order): 

buildtools - sripts used in building Elmer
ElmerGUI - the new graphical user interface of Elmer based on QT 
ElmerGUIlogger - launcher for ElmerGUI based on QT
eio - elmer I/O library used by ElmerSolver for some tasks
elmergrid - simple mesh creation and manipulation utility
elmerparam - optimization wrapper
fem - elmersolver, the computational kernel
front - ElmerFront, the old graphical user interface
hutiter - iterative linear algebra 
matc - library for on-the-line arithmetics  
meshgen2d - 2d Delaunay mesh generation 
post - ElmerPost, the visualization program of Elmer 
misc - miscallenous stuff

The following exception applied to ElmerGUI module:


ElmerGUI GPL Exception v. 1.0
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Additional rights granted by the copyright holder, beyond GPL version 2.
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As an exception to the conditions of Gnu Public Licence version 2 (GPL-2),
CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., the copyright holder of ElmerGUI, hereby
grants you the right to link the source code within this directory against
the library of

"Open CASCADE" v. 6.3 by Open CASCADE S.A.S.

You may also link ElmerGUI against any later versions of Open CASCADE,
provided that the lincense of Open CASCADE permits such usage. The licence
terms for the Open CASCADE library can be found from

http://www.opencascade.org/



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Additionally the source distribution comes with some libraries wrapped 
up in autoconf/automake built scripts:

mathlibs - scalapack components: blas, lapack, arpack, parpack
umfpack - Umfpack version 4.4 (licensed under LGPL)
metis - graph partitioning contained within ElmerGrid


Metis license:
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* Copyright 1997, Regents of the University of Minnesota

Our policy regarding the distribution of METIS with third-party applications is as follows:

    *  Non-commercial applications
      METIS can be freely distributed provided that:
          o Proper references are included.
          o The original documentation and copyright notice is included.
    * Commercial applications
      METIS can be freely distributed provided that:
          o Proper references are included.
          o The original documentation and copyright notice is included.
          o METIS is a relatively small portion of the overall application.









