.. _Sec:Licence:

License
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|License|

ECOGEN is the legal property of its developers, whose names are listed in the copyright file included with the source distribution. Contributors’ names for version |version| are listed below (from first to last to join):

	- Fabien Petitpas,
	- Sébastien Le Martelot,
	- Kevin Schmidmayer,
	- Eric Daniel,
	- Benedikt Dorschner,
	- Joris Caze,
	- Fatima Gadiri,
	- Solène Schropff.

ECOGEN is a 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.
ECOGEN 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 available at the following address: http://www.gnu.org/licenses.

Citations
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To cite ECOGEN, please use :cite:`schmidmayer2020ecogen` |DOI:ecogen|

.. code-block:: none

	@article{schmidmayer2020ecogen,
	  doi = {10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107093},
	  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107093},
	  title={ECOGEN: An open-source tool for multiphase, compressible, multiphysics flows},
	  author={Schmidmayer, Kevin and Petitpas, Fabien and Le Martelot, S{\'e}bastien and Daniel, E},
	  journal={Computer Physics Communications},
	  volume={251},
	  year={2020}
	}

.. |License| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPLv3-blue.svg
   :target: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0

.. |DOI:ecogen| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI-10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107093-green.svg
   :target: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107093

Aknowledgments
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A special thanks is also adressed to Tim Colonius and Nicolas Favrie for their advising and fundings.

They helped to improve ECOGEN software through their valuable feedbacks: Luc Biasiori-Poulanges, Spencer Bryngelson, Theresa Trummler, Mathieu Brasseur, Guillaume Bokman, Vincent Perrier.

They also contributed to the evolution of ECOGEN software through their scholar internships:
Pierre Cottigny, Titouan Bonnaure, Paul Jeanney, Adrien Besse, Estefani Cardoso Aires, Guillaume Chavet.