QuantLib License
QuantLib is Non-Copylefted Free Software released under the modified BSD License (also known as XFree86-style license).
QuantLib is Open Source because of its license: it is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
The modified BSD License is GPL compatible as confirmed by the Free Software Foundation.
This License has been adopted to allow free use of QuantLib and its source, to make QuantLib flourish as a free-software/open-source project. It allows proprietary extensions to be commercialized.
The license:
QuantLib is Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 RiskMap srl Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Nicolas Di Césaré Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Sadruddin Rejeb Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Decillion Pty(Ltd) Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Ferdinando Ametrano Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 StatPro Italia srl Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007 Neil Firth Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Roman Gitlin Copyright (C) 2003 Niels Elken Sønderby Copyright (C) 2003 Kawanishi Tomoya Copyright (C) 2004 FIMAT Group Copyright (C) 2004 M-Dimension Consulting Inc. Copyright (C) 2004 Mike Parker Copyright (C) 2004 Walter Penschke Copyright (C) 2004 Gianni Piolanti Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Klaus Spanderen Copyright (C) 2004 Jeff Yu Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2008 Toyin Akin Copyright (C) 2005 Sercan Atalik Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Theo Boafo Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 Piter Dias Copyright (C) 2005, 2013 Gary Kennedy Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Joseph Wang Copyright (C) 2005 Charles Whitmore Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Banca Profilo S.p.A. Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Marco Bianchetti Copyright (C) 2006 Yiping Chen Copyright (C) 2006 Warren Chou Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Cristina Duminuco Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Giorgio Facchinetti Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Chiara Fornarola Copyright (C) 2006 Silvia Frasson Copyright (C) 2006 Richard Gould Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Mark Joshi Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 Allen Kuo Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 Roland Lichters Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Katiuscia Manzoni Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Mario Pucci Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 François du Vignaud Copyright (C) 2007 Affine Group Limited Copyright (C) 2007 Richard Gomes Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Laurent Hoffmann Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Chris Kenyon Copyright (C) 2007 Gang Liang Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016 Jose Aparicio Copyright (C) 2008 Yee Man Chan Copyright (C) 2008, 2011 Charles Chongseok Hyun Copyright (C) 2008 Piero Del Boca Copyright (C) 2008 Paul Farrington Copyright (C) 2008 Lorella Fatone Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Andreas Gaida Copyright (C) 2008 Marek Glowacki Copyright (C) 2008 Florent Grenier Copyright (C) 2008 Frank Hövermann Copyright (C) 2008 Simon Ibbotson Copyright (C) 2008 John Maiden Copyright (C) 2008 Francesca Mariani Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 Master IMAFA - Polytech'Nice Sophia - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Andrea Odetti Copyright (C) 2008 J. Erik Radmall Copyright (C) 2008 Maria Cristina Recchioni Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014 Ralph Schreyer Copyright (C) 2008 Roland Stamm Copyright (C) 2008 Francesco Zirilli Copyright (C) 2009 Nathan Abbott Copyright (C) 2009 Sylvain Bertrand Copyright (C) 2009 Frédéric Degraeve Copyright (C) 2009 Dirk Eddelbuettel Copyright (C) 2009 Bernd Engelmann Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2012 Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. Copyright (C) 2009 Bojan Nikolic Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Dimitri Reiswich Copyright (C) 2009 Sun Xiuxin Copyright (C) 2010 Kakhkhor Abdijalilov Copyright (C) 2010 Hachemi Benyahia Copyright (C) 2010 Manas Bhatt Copyright (C) 2010 DeriveXperts SAS Copyright (C) 2010, 2014 Cavit Hafizoglu Copyright (C) 2010 Michael Heckl Copyright (C) 2010 Slava Mazur Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Andre Miemiec Copyright (C) 2010 Adrian O' Neill Copyright (C) 2010 Robert Philipp Copyright (C) 2010 Alessandro Roveda Copyright (C) 2010 SunTrust Bank Copyright (C) 2011, 2013, 2014 Fabien Le Floc'h Copyright (C) 2012, 2013 Grzegorz Andruszkiewicz Copyright (C) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Peter Caspers Copyright (C) 2012 Mateusz Kapturski Copyright (C) 2012 Simon Shakeshaft Copyright (C) 2012 Édouard Tallent Copyright (C) 2012 Samuel Tebege Copyright (C) 2013 BGC Partners L.P. Copyright (C) 2013 Chris Higgs Copyright (C) 2013, 2014, 2015 Cheng Li Copyright (C) 2013 Yue Tian Copyright (C) 2014, 2017 Francois Botha Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Johannes Göttker-Schnetmann Copyright (C) 2014 Michal Kaut Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Bernd Lewerenz Copyright (C) 2014, 2015, 2016 Paolo Mazzocchi Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Thema Consulting SA Copyright (C) 2014, 2015, 2016 Michael von den Driesch Copyright (C) 2015 Riccardo Barone Copyright (C) 2015 CompatibL Copyright (C) 2015, 2016 Andres Hernandez Copyright (C) 2015 Dmitri Nesteruk Copyright (C) 2015 Maddalena Zanzi Copyright (C) 2016 Nicholas Bertocchi Copyright (C) 2016 Stefano Fondi Copyright (C) 2016, 2017 Fabrice Lecuyer Copyright (C) 2016 Eisuke Tani Copyright (C) 2017 BN Algorithms Ltd Copyright (C) 2017 Paul Giltinan Copyright (C) 2017 Werner Kuerzinger Copyright (C) 2017 Oleg Kulkov Copyright (C) 2017 Joseph Jeisman Copyright (C) 2018 Tom Anderson Copyright (C) 2018 Alexey Indiryakov Copyright (C) 2018 Matthias Groncki Copyright (C) 2018 Matthias Lungwitz Copyright (C) 2018 Roy Zywina QuantLib includes code taken from Peter Jäckel's book "Monte Carlo Methods in Finance". QuantLib includes software developed by the University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory. QuantLib includes a set of numbers provided by Stephen Joe and Frances Kuo under a BSD-style license. 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 names of the copyright holders nor the names of the QuantLib Group and its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 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