1 FastJet is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License
2 v2 (GPLv2). FastJet includes a significant body of third-party code,
3 for example for third party plugin algorithms and for computational
4 geometry methods. These too are usually released under the GPL or
5 permissive licenses. Details are given below on a case-by-case basis.
7 A copy of the GPLv2 is to be found at the end of this file.
9 While the GPL license grants you considerable freedom, please bear in
10 mind that FastJet's use falls under guidelines similar to those that
11 are standard for Monte Carlo event generators
12 (http://www.montecarlonet.org/GUIDELINES). In particular, if you use
13 this code as part of work towards a scientific publication, whether
14 directly or contained within another program (e.g. Delphes, SpartyJet,
15 Rivet, LHC collaboration software frameworks, etc.), you should
18 arXiv:1111.6097 (FastJet User Manual)
19 and, optionally, Phys.Lett.B641 (2006) 57 [arXiv:hep-ph/0512210]
21 A number of other citations may also be relevant, for example for jet
22 areas and subtraction, boosted object taggers, plugins and the
23 underlying computational geometry methods and codes. Plugins generally
24 indicate the appropriate reference in a banner. References for other
25 features are to be found in the FastJet manual.
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32 For the plugin jet finders, the licensing situation is as follows:
34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
35 . ATLAS Cone: the code was taken from SpartyJet v1.20. (GPLv2?)
36 Licensing situation currently undergoing confirmation.
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39 . CDF code: originally provided by J.Huston
41 See http://www.pa.msu.edu/~huston/Les_Houches_2005/JetClu+Midpoint-StandAlone.tgz
42 for the original code.
44 Informal agreement for distribution under the terms of the GPL was
45 obtained from Robert Roser on 13 April 2011. We are awaiting final
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51 Code taken from http://cmssw.cvs.cern.ch/cgi-bin/cmssw.cgi/CMSSW
52 GPL(v2) (permission granted by R.Harris)
54 From: Robert M Harris <rharris@fnal.gov>
55 To: Gregory Soyez <soyez@fastjet.fr>,
56 Matteo Cacciari <cacciari@lpthe.jussieu.fr>,
57 Gavin Salam <salam@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
58 Cc: Daniele.Del.Re@cern.ch,
59 Salvatore Rappoccio <rappoccio@gmail.com>,
60 Robert M Harris <rharris@fnal.gov>
61 Subject: Re: CMS Iterative Cone license
62 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:05:55 -0600
64 Dear Gregory, Matteo and Gavin,
66 As a jet object coordinator for the CMS collaboration, and having
67 consulted and obtained the consent of the other authors, I hereby
68 grant you permission to distribute our code for the CMS Iterative
69 Cone jet algorithm under the terms of the GNU Public License (v2).
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76 . D0 RunI and RunII cone plugins:
77 Standalone version provided by Lars Sonnenschein.
78 Permission to distribute it under the terms of the GPL(v2) granted
79 by Lars Sonnenschein on behalf of the D0 collaboration
81 From: Lars Sonnenschein <sonne@mail.cern.ch>
82 To: Gregory Soyez <soyez@fastjet.fr>
83 Cc: Matteo Cacciari <matteo.cacciari@cern.ch>,
84 Gavin Salam <salam@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
85 Subject: Re: D0 cone license
86 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:17:05 +0100
89 after some iterations with the D0 spoke persons and other programmers who
90 have been involved in writing the C++ implementation within the D0
91 software framework, the conclusion is that D0 grants the permission:
93 "As an author of the D0 Run I and D0 Run II cone code, and having
94 consulted and obtained the consent of the other authors (D0 collaboration),
95 I hereby grant you permission to distribute my/our code for the
96 D0 Run I and Run II cone jet algorithms under the terms of the GNU
97 General Public License (v2).".
99 Citation and/or banner should then also give credit to the D0
106 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
107 . PxCone code: GPL(v2) (permission granted by M.H.Seymour)
109 From: Mike Seymour <Michael.Seymour@cern.ch>
110 To: Gavin Salam <gavin.salam@cern.ch>
111 Subject: Re: PxCone licence
112 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:15:08 +0000
116 As an author of the PxCone code, and having checked that this is
117 acceptable with the other authors of PxCone (Luis Del Pozo and his
118 then PhD supervisor David Ward), I hereby grant you the right to
119 distribute PxCone together with FastJet under a GPL (v2) license.
121 Many thanks for dealing with this,
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125 . SISCone code: GPL(v2)
126 see http://projects.hepforge.org/siscone/ for details
128 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
129 . TrackJet: available under the GPL (v2) from Rivet (v1.1.2)
130 see http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/
132 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
133 . EECambridge, GridJet, Jade and NestedDefs have been written by the
134 FastJet authors and are thus distributed under the GNU Public
137 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
138 The "interface" parts of the plugins are GPL (v2).
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144 CGAL is not distributed with FastJet. Some parts of CGAL are released
145 under a QPL license. Given this license's compatibility issues with
146 the GPL, and for the purpose of resolving any ambiguity on this point,
147 we explicitly grant permission for FastJet to be linked with CGAL.
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150 Fortune's Voronoi code
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153 This code, Copyright(c)1994 by AT&T Bell Laboratories is distributed
154 under a non-restrictive license that allows for copying, modification
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156 unchanged. Modifications made subsequently by Shane O'Sullivan and
157 Gregory Soyez are distributed under similar conditions.
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160 Chan's closest neighbour algorithm
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163 The code for this has been written by the FastJet authors.
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