ACADEMIC PUBLIC LICENSE FOR THE USE OF STEPSS
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1. Definitions related to the software
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"Software" means a copy of STEPSS, which is distributed under this Academic
Public License. "Work based on the Software" means either the Software or any
derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the
Software or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications. "Using the
Software" means any act of creating executables that contain or directly use
libraries that are part of the Software, running any of the tools that are part
of the Software, or creating works based on the Software. "You" refers to each
licensee.

2. Authors
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STEPSS has been developed by Dr Petros Aristidou (email:
petros.aristidou@cut.ac.cy) and Dr Thierry Van Cutsem (email:
thierry.h.van.cutsem@gmail.com), hereafter referred to as the "Authors".

3. Intellectual property rights
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STEPSS is made up of three modules: PFC (for power flow computations), RAMSES
(the solver of differential-algebraic equations), and CODEGEN (a tool to
develop models).

PFC and CODEGEN are the property of Dr Thierry Van Cutsem. RAMSES is the
property of the University of Liège, Belgium, which has granted to both
Authors a personal, royalty-free, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable
and non-assignable license to distribute free of charge an executable version
of RAMSES in accordance with the terms detailed under Articles 4, 5 and 6
below.

4. License terms
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Permission is hereby granted to use the Software free of charge for any
non-commercial purpose, including teaching and research at universities,
colleges and other educational institutions, research at non-profit research
institutions, and personal non-profit purposes. For using the Software for
commercial purposes, including but not restricted to consulting activities,
design of commercial hardware or software products, or if you are a commercial
entity participating in research projects, you have to contact the Authors.

You are not required to accept this License. Nothing else grants you permission
to use the Software; the law prohibits this action if you do not accept this
License. Therefore, by using the Software (or any work based on the Software),
you indicate your acceptance of this License and all its terms and conditions.

5. Warranty
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The Software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or
implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability,
fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. In no event shall the
Authors nor the Intellectual property owners be liable for any claim, damages
or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise,
arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other
dealings in the Software.

6. Limited version of the Software
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This free-of-charge version of the software is limited to power system models
up to 1000 buses (or nodes) and can be executed with parallelization using no
more than two cores. For extensions to larger models or execution using more
than two cores, you have to contact the Authors.
