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The IPython licensing terms

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IPython is licensed under the terms of the Modified BSD License (also known as

New or Revised BSD), as follows:

Copyright (c) 2008-2010, IPython Development Team

Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Fernando Perez. <fernando.perez@colorado.edu>

Copyright (c) 2001, Janko Hauser <jhauser@zscout.de>

Copyright (c) 2001, Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@caltech.edu>

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this

list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this

list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or

other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the name of the IPython Development Team nor the names of its

contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this

software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND

ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED

WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE

DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE

FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL

DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR

SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER

CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,

OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE

OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

About the IPython Development Team

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Fernando Perez began IPython in 2001 based on code from Janko Hauser

<jhauser@zscout.de> and Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@caltech.edu>. Fernando is still

the project lead.

The IPython Development Team is the set of all contributors to the IPython

project. This includes all of the IPython subprojects. A full list with

details is kept in the documentation directory, in the file

``about/credits.txt``.

The core team that coordinates development on GitHub can be found here:

http://github.com/ipython. As of late 2010, it consists of:

* Brian E. Granger

* Jonathan March

* Evan Patterson

* Fernando Perez

* Min Ragan-Kelley

* Robert Kern

Our Copyright Policy

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IPython uses a shared copyright model. Each contributor maintains copyright

over their contributions to IPython. But, it is important to note that these

contributions are typically only changes to the repositories. Thus, the IPython

source code, in its entirety is not the copyright of any single person or

institution. Instead, it is the collective copyright of the entire IPython

Development Team. If individual contributors want to maintain a record of what

changes/contributions they have specific copyright on, they should indicate

their copyright in the commit message of the change, when they commit the

change to one of the IPython repositories.

With this in mind, the following banner should be used in any source code file

to indicate the copyright and license terms:

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