Licensing information
OVITO Basic in binary form is published by the software vendor OVITO GmbH, Germany, under the terms of the MIT License. Program packages are built from source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (v3) and the MIT License. The source code is hosted in a public GitLab repository.
OVITO Pro is proprietary software of OVITO GmbH and licensed under the terms of the OVITO Pro End-User Licence Agreement. See this page for more information on the differences between the two versions of OVITO.
The ovito Python module, distributed as PyPI and Anaconda packages, is made available by OVITO GmbH under the MIT License.
Third-party software
OVITO Pro and OVITO Basic are based on the following open-source software components. The table lists the licenses of the included components and, if they are used under LGPL, build steps for their source codes.
Component |
License |
Instructions |
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LGPL v3 |
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PSF license |
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Geogram library by Bruno Levy, INRIA - ALICE |
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Tachyon Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System by John E. Stone |
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muParser by Ingo Berg |
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LGPL v2.1 |
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OVITO legacy code |
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LGPL v2.1 |
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Voro++ by Chris Rycroft |
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Polyhedral Template Matching library by Peter Mahler Larsen |
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QCP rotation calculation method by Pu Liu and Douglas L. Theobald |
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GSD (General Simulation Data) I/O routines |
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LGPL v3 |
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Apache 2.0 |
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Apache 2.0 |
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Apache 2.0 |
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Apache 2.0 |
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Apache 2.0 |
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MPL v2 |
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XTC/XDR file I/O routines |
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LGPL v3 |
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Apache 2.0 |
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NVIDIA Software Developer Kits, Samples and Tools License Agreement |
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