License

The FLUKA User license for scientific, non-commercial, non-military use is reported below

FLUKA User license

DEFINITIONS

The FLUKA software (FLUKA) means the fully integrated particle physics Monte Carlo simulation software package being developed since 1989 by the AUthors and available, under the name “FLUKA”, from https://www.fluka.eu and/or mirror sites authorised by the Authors. FLUKA includes FLUKA core code, and FLUKA User Routines (as defined below).

FLUKA User Routines means the set of subroutines collected in the usermvax section of FLUKA and forming part of the standard distribution of FLUKA.

The Licensee means any person acting individually within a non-profit organisation, exercising any permission granted by this license.

LICENSE GRANT

  1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this license, the FLUKA Copyright Holders herewith grant to the Licensee a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, source and object code license to use and reproduce FLUKA for internal scientific non commercial non-military purposes only. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Licensee shall not execute FLUKA in a manner that produces an output whose contents are directly useable or easily employable to simulate the physics models embedded within FLUKA in a generic manner, or excise portions of FLUKA source or object code, and execute them independently of FLUKA. Extracting specific isolated results from any of the individual internal physics models embedded within FLUKA is not permitted. Permitted use and reproduction are referred to below as “Use”.

  2. Modification (including translation) of FLUKA, in whole or in part, is not permitted, except for modification of FLUKA User Routines that do not circumvent, replace, add to or modify any of the functions of the FLUKA core code. Permitted modifications are referred to below as “Modifications”.

  3. FLUKA is licensed for Use by the Licensee only, and the Licensee shall not market, distribute, transfer, license or sub-license, or in any way make available (“Make Available”) FLUKA or Modifications, in whole or in part, to third parties, without prior written permission. The Licensee shall not assign or transfer this license.

  4. Notwithstanding section use.lic, the Licensee may Make Available his Modifications of FLUKA User Routines to third parties under these license conditions.

  5. The Licensee shall not insert FLUKA code or Modifications, in whole or in part, into other codes without prior written permission.

  6. The Licensee shall not reverse engineer, decompile, decrypt, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code from the FLUKA binary code or FLUKA data libraries (except as and only to the extent that any foregoing restriction is prohibited by Law).

  7. Any use of FLUKA outside the scope of this license is subject to prior written permission.

  8. The Licensee shall report as soon as practical any errors or bugs found in any portion of FLUKA to the authors

PUBLICATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

  1. The Licensee shall explicitly acknowledge his use of FLUKA in any publication or communication, scientific or otherwise, relating to such use, by citing the FLUKA set of references (https://www.fluka.eu [3]) and the FLUKA copyright notice.

  2. The Licensee shall ensure that the FLUKA set of references, the FLUKA copyright notice and these license conditions are not altered or removed from FLUKA and that all embodiments of FLUKA and Modifications contain in full the FLUKA set of references, the FLUKA copyright notice, and these license conditions.

  3. Any insertion of FLUKA code or Modifications, in whole or in part, into other codes with permission under section othercodes.lic shall preserve the FLUKA set of references, the FLUKA copyright notice and these license conditions in the FLUKA code or Modifications concerned, and must also reproduce these within any additional global notices included along or embedded within the software into which the FLUKA code or the Modifications have been integrated, in whole or in part. Any part of the FLUKA code or Modifications so inserted shall continue to be subject to these license conditions.

  4. Publication of any results of comparisons of specific internal physics models extracted from FLUKA with permission under section writtenpermit.lic with data or with other codes or models is subject to prior written permission.

  5. Contributions to any formal code comparisons and validation exercises pertaining to FLUKA, sponsored by recognised bodies or within the framework of recognised conferences and workshops, are subject to prior written permission.

WARRANTY AND LIABILITY

  1. DISCLAIMER FLUKA IS PROVIDED BY THE FLUKA COPYRIGHT HOLDERS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE ARE DISCLAIMED. THE FLUKA COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THE AUTHORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATION THAT FLUKA AND MODIFICATIONS THEREOF WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY PATENT, COPYRIGHT, TRADE SECRET OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT.

  2. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THE FLUKA COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND ANY CONTRIBUTOR SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF FLUKA, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND THE LICENSEE SHALL HOLD THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND ANY CONTRIBUTOR FREE AND HARMLESS FROM ANY LIABILITY, INCLUDING CLAIMS BY THIRD PARTIES, IN RELATION TO SUCH USE.

TERMINATION

  1. This license shall terminate with immediate effect and without notice if the Licensee fails to comply with any of the terms of this license, or if the Licensee initiates litigation against any of the FLUKA Copyright Holders or any contributors with regard to FLUKA. It shall also terminate with immediate effect from the date on which a new version of FLUKA becomes available. In either case sections DISCLAIMER.lic and LIABILITY.lic above shall continue to apply to any Use or Modifications made under these license conditions.

The required FLUKA references are [Bal24, Fer05]. Additional references may be added when relevant to the version under consideration.

Note: Copyright statements contained in individual files referring explicitly to one or more of the Authors and/or Collaborators, must be interpreted as “Copyright Authors and INFN”, for the period 1989-November 2003, “Copyright INFN and CERN, Authors: …”, for the period December 2003-September 1st 2019 and limited to the parts publicly released before September 1st 2019, as “Copyright Alberto Fasso‘, Alfredo Ferrari, their collaborators, and INFN, Authors: …”, from September 1st 2019 to June 30th 2022, and finally as “Copyright Alberto Fasso‘, Alfredo Ferrari, Paola Sala, and their collaborators, Authors: …”, from July 1st 2022 onwards.

Note

  • The Nuclear Energy Agency Data Bank is an authorized distributor of the code

For questions/clarifications/problems about the license or in general the use of FLUKA please contact paola.sala@orange.fr