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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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along with ARTIQ. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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along with ARTIQ. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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The ARTIQ manifesto
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The free and open dissemination of methods and results is central to scientific progress.
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The ARTIQ authors, contributors, and supporters consider the free and open exchange of scientific tools to be equally important and have chosen the licensing terms of ARTIQ accordingly.
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ARTIQ, including its gateware, the firmware, and the ARTIQ tools and libraries are licensed as LGPLv3+.
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This ensures that a user of ARTIQ obtains broad rights to use, redistribute, and modify it.
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The following statements are intended to clarify the interpretation and application of the licensing terms:
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* There is no requirement to distribute any unmodified, modified, or extended versions of ARTIQ. Only when distributing ARTIQ the source needs to be made available.
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* Unmodified, modified, or extended versions of ARTIQ can be distributed freely under the terms of the LGPLv3+.
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* Your ``Experiments``, ``Applets``, and ARTIQ device drivers are considered "Applications" (see the LGPLv3+) and can be (but don't have to be) distributed under the terms of your choice. The public distribution under a free and open license is encouraged, however.
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* Similarly, distribution and licensing of your experiment data, calibrations, or measurement results is entirely at your discretion.
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* Other features, changes, and additions are considered modifications of ARTIQ and inherit the LGPLv3+. Those include for example adding new RTIO ``Phys``, compiler optimizations, compiler features, ports of the compiler to other target CPUs, dashboard or browser features that are not in applets, as well as scheduler, master and runtime modifications.
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* Analogously to the established practice in the Linux kernel, we do not consider components that are developed and used independently to be modifications of ARTIQ.
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* For example, when developing a ``Phy`` for an independently developed and used gateware component, that gateware component is not considered a modification of ARTIQ (but the ``Phy`` is).
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