License

SLEPc is distributed under a 2-clause BSD license.

 Copyright (c) 2002-2024, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
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This license DOES NOT apply to any software that may be obtained via the --download-package option of the SLEPc configuration. Each of those packages are covered by their own licenses.

Contributing

Contributions are preferred via GitLab merge request or via patches (git send-email or git format-patch) sent to . If you are planning a large contribution, we encourage you to discuss the concept with us and interact frequently to ensure that your effort is well-directed.

SLEPc is distributed under a 2-clause BSD license. The act of submitting a pull request or patch (with or without an explicit Signed-off-by tag) will be understood as an affirmation of the following:

 Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

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 (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right
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 (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my
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