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\chapter{Copyrights}\label{chap:copyrights}

The majority of code in the \texttt{ropp} subdirectory of the
distribution is
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\begin{quote}
   \copyright{} Copyright 2009-2020, EUMETSAT, All Rights Reserved.

   This software was developed within the context of the EUMETSAT Satellite
   Application Facility on Radio Occultation Meteorology (ROM SAF), under the 
   Cooperation Agreement dated 29 June 2011, between EUMETSAT and the Danish
   Meteorological Institute (DMI), Denmark, by one or more partners within
   the ROM SAF. The partners in the ROM SAF are DMI, Met Office, UK, the
   Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Spain and the European
   Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK
\end{quote}
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Some parts of the source code within this distribution were developed
within the Met Office outside the context of the ROM SAF and represents
pre-existing software (PES); this portion is

\begin{quote}
   \copyright{} Crown copyright 2016, Met Office. All rights reserved.

   Use, duplication or disclosure of this code is subject to the restrictions
   as set forth in the contract. If no contract has been raised with this
   copy of the code, the use, duplication or disclosure of it is strictly
   prohibited. Permission to do so must first be obtained in writing from
   the Head of Satellite Applications at the following address:

                  Met Office, FitzRoy Road
                  Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB
                  United Kingdom
\end{quote}
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This ROPP package may also contain open source code libraries available
through its author, Christian Marquardt. This code is also classed as PES.
The configuration and build system of this software uses additional
macros for GNU's \texttt{automake} and \texttt{autoconf} suite. The
relevant files are contained in the \texttt{m4} subdirectory of the
source code distribution. The complete set of modifications including
documentation is available from the author, Christian Marquardt
and are used throughout ROPP. These contributions are
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\begin{quote}
   \copyright{} Copyright 2008, C. Marquardt $<$christian@marquardt.sc$>$

    All rights reserved.

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
    a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
    "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
    without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
    distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
    permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
    the following conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
    included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software as well
    as in supporting documentation.

    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
    NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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.
\end{quote}
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This ROPP package may also contain open source code libraries available
through its author, Michael Gorbunov. This is also PES, and is
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\begin{quote}
   \copyright{} Copyright 1998-2010 Michael Gorbunov $<$michael.gorbunov@zmaw.de$>$

    All rights reserved.

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
    a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
    "Software"), to deal in the Software with the rights to use, copy, modify,
    merge copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software
    is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
    included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software as well
    as in supporting documentation.

    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
    NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
    HOLDERS 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. HOWEVER, ALL EFFORTS ARE BEING
    MADE BY THE AUTHOR IN ORDER TO FIND AND ELIMINATE ALL POSSIBLE
    ERRORS AND PROBLEMS. IN THIS CASE THE AUTHOR MAY PROVIDE AN UPDATE.
\end{quote}
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This ROPP package may also contain open source code libraries available 
through its author, Stig Syndergaard. This is also PES, and is
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\begin{quote}
   \copyright{} Copyright 1998 Stig Syndergaard $<$ssy@dmi.dk$>$

     All rights reserved.

     Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
     a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
     "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
     without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
     distribute, and/or sublicense the Software, and to permit persons 
     to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
     the following conditions:

     The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
     included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software as well
     as in supporting documentation.

     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
     NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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.
\end{quote}
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This ROPP package may also contain a dataset available through its author,
Barbara Scherllin-Pirscher, and is
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\begin{quote}
   \copyright{} Copyright 2013-2014 Barbara Scherllin-Pirscher

     All rights reserved.

     Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
     copy of the latest BAROCLIM (V3) dataset (the "Dataset") to use, copy,
     publish and merge copies of the Dataset for scientific and non-commercial
     purposes only and to permit persons to whom the Dataset is furnished to do
     so also for scientific but non-commercial purposes only, subject to the
     following conditions:

     The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
     all copies or substantial portions of the Dataset as well as in supporting
     documentation.

     THE DATASET 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 OR COPYRIGHT HOLDER 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 DATASET OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
     OF THE DATASET.
\end{quote}

Finally, some open source third-party PES code is included in the ROPP
package, and is distributed according to the terms and conditions of
that software which the end user must also accept. Such code is
provided 'as-is'.

The relevant copyright for each individual file is documented in the
file's comment header.

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