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Copyright (c) the Copyright Holders of Kassiopeia and the institutions of the KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment) Collaboration, 2015-2022. See the author list for details on the Copyright Holders. All rights not expressly granted under this license are reserved.

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  1. Redistributions of this software, in whole or in part, with or without modification, shall reproduce the above copyright notice and these license conditions in this software, the user documentation and any other materials provided with the redistributed software. By using, copying, modifying or distributing the software (or any work based on the software) you agree to acknowledge its use in resulting scientific publications.

  2. The user documentation, if any, included with a redistribution and derivatives, must include the following notice:

    This product includes software developed by Members of the KATRIN Collaboration ( http://www.katrin.kit.edu )

    If that is where third-party acknowledgments normally appear, this acknowledgment must be reproduced in the modified version of this software itself.

  3. The names KATRIN, Kassiopeia, KEMField, and KGeoBag may not be used to endorse or promote software, or products derived therefrom, except with prior written permission by the Copyright Holders. 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.

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  5. 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.

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