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The SCHISM-ESMF cap is free and open source. You are welcome to use it in any way you like, you are encouraged to modify it and adapt it to your own purposes, and you are free to pass it on, within the bounds ofthe license terms set out below.

License

The majority of codes of the SCHISM-ESMF cap are released under the Apache version 2.0 license

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Those parts which were derived from third-party software under the terms of the GNU Public License, continue to be released under the GPL.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU 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 General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

The majority of codes of the SCHISM-ESMF cap are copyrighted by Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH (Hereon) and Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). Any other contribution retains the copyright of the respective contributor.

Contributing

According to section 5 of SCHISM's Apache License, your contribution is accepted under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License, unless agreed otherwise. If you modify codes that are under the therms of the GNU Public license, your contribution is accepted under those terms.

By submitting your contribution, you acknowledge that you have the legal right to contribute your work to SCHISM-ESMF, and you hereby irrevocably grant to Hereon and VIMS a perpetual license to use, redistribute, and re-license your contribution under any open source license endorsed by the Open Software Initiative.