License Information

The NeXus library and utilities are distributed under the terms on the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) – see the enclosed COPYING_NeXus.txt file or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php for further details. The NeXus library is linked statically against Michael Sweet’s Mini-XML parsing library (http://www.easysw.com/~mike/mxml/) which is also governed by the LGPL.

In addition to the NeXus libraries, this kit will also install DLLs from other packages that have been linked into the NeXus library. These packages and their licenses are as follows:

libxml2.dll is from the XML C Parser for GNOME (http://xmlsoft.org/). Its distribution is covered by the MIT License which is detailed in the enclosed COPYING_libxml2.txt file and also at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html

hd*.dll and hm*.dll files are the HDF4 libraries developed at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/). Their distribution is covered by the license detailed in the enclosed COPYING_hdf4.txt file and at ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF/HDF_Current/src/unpacked/COPYING 

hdf5dll.dll is the HDF5 library developed at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/). Distribution is covered by the license detailed in the enclosed COPYING_hdf5.txt file and at ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/COPYING 

szlibdll.dll is the decoder-only version of the SZIP compression library – it is licensed for use only in conjunction with the enclosed HDF software. For further information see http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/ and http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/Commercial_szip.html

zlib1.dll is from the the ZLIB compression library http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ . Its distribution is covered by the license detailed in the enclosed COPYING_zlib.txt and also at http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html

iconv.dll is from the GNU ICONV library (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/). It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as detailed in the enclosed COPYING_iconv.txt and at . http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php