neBEM Software License Version 1.5, 26 October 2009
Copyright (C) 2005-2009, Supratik Mukhopadhyay and Nayana Majumdar
All rights, not expressly granted under this license, are reserved.
neBEM Software Terms and Conditions:
The authors hereby grant permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any peaceful and non-profit purpose, provided that existing copyright notices are retained in all copies and that this notice is included verbatim in any distribution.
Additionally, the authors grant permission to modify this software and its documentation for any peaceful and non-profit purpose, provided that such modifications are not distributed without the explicit consent of the authors and that existing copyright notices are retained in all copies.
User documentation, if any, included with a redistribution, must include the following notice:
"This product includes software neBEM developed by Supratik Mukhopadhyay and Nayana Majumdar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, WB, India"
The name "neBEM" may not be used to endorse or promote software, or products derived therefrom, except with prior written permission from the authors. If this software is redistributed in modified form, the name and reference of the modified version must be clearly distinguishable from that of this software.
You are under no obligation to provide anyone with any modifications of this software that you may develop, including but not limited to bug fixes, patches, upgrades or other enhancements or derivatives of the features, functionality or performance of this software. However, if you publish or distribute your modifications without contemporaneously requiring users to enter into a separate written license agreement, then you are deemed to have granted the authors of this software a license to your modifications, including modifications protected by any patent owned by you, under the conditions of this license.
You may not include this software in whole or in part in any patent or patent application in respect of any modification of this software developed by you.
Users of the software are requested to feed back problems, benefits, and/or suggestions about the software to the authors:
supratik.mukhopadhyay@saha.ac.in
nayana.majumdar@saha.ac.in
In the event of any documentation / publication through the use of this software, the users are requested to kindly refer to one, or more, of the following references:
[1] Computation of 3D MEMS electrostatics using a nearly exact BEM solver, Supratik Muhkopadhyay, Nayana Majumdar, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 30 (2006) 687–696, doi:10.1016/j.enganabound.2006.03.002
[2] Simulation of three-dimensional electrostatic field configuration in wire chambers: A novel approach, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 566 (2006) 489–494, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2006.06.035
[3] A study of three-dimensional edge and corner problems using the neBEM solver, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Nayana Majumdar, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 33 (2009) 105–119, doi:10.1016/j.enganabound.2008.06.003
Support for this software - fixing of bugs, incorporation of new features - is done on a best effort basis. All bug fixes and enhancements will be made available under the same terms and conditions as the original software.
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This license shall terminate with immediate effect and without notice if you fail to comply with any of the terms of this license, or if you institute litigation against any of the authors with regard to this software.