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GRAY User Agreement (2022.11.18)

Copyright (c) 2007-2022, ISTP-CNR

GRAY (the Software) was developed by the Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (ISTP), formerly Institute for Plasma Physics (IFP), National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and its development was partly funded by Euratom (under EFDA and EUROfusion consortium agreements). Its distribution is subject to requirements and restrictions imposed by CNR and Euratom.

In order to acquire access to the code sources, the recipient agrees:

  1. To use the Software exclusively for non-commercial research purposes.
  2. Not to use the Software for military purposes or any other purpose falling under the provisions for non-proliferation.
  3. To receive the Software "as is", without any warranty that the Software is in good running order and that its use will not involve any infringement of copyright; no liability can be accepted for damage or injury arising from use of the Software.
  4. To notify the authors of the Software if they discover that the Software contains any error or infringes any copyright.
  5. To use the Software without modification; users however are welcome to request changes, or to contribute modifications subject to approval of the authors.
  6. To include in published results or presentations the proper code name "GRAY" and appropriate references.
  7. If the copy of the Software downloaded by the authorized user is made available to third parties, to ensure that the user agreement is distributed to and followed by the third parties.

The reference paper for GRAY, to be cited in publications containing results obtained with this Software, is:

D. Farina, Fusion Sci. Technol. 52 (2007) 154.

The parallel-momentum-conserving solver for Current Drive computation is based on routines developed by N. B. Marushchenko, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany. This solver can be referenced by citing:

N. B. Marushchenko, C. D. Beidler, and H. Maassberg, Fusion Sci. Technol. 55 (2009) 180.

GRAY contains adaptations of software developed by the University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory, and other public domain libraries, including but not limited to, the following packages

that were obtained from the Netlib repository. For more information refer to the relevant source code in the [src/vendor]{./src/vendor} directory.