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Third-Party Software

LAVA includes the following third-party software components:

1. BVH

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2. kdtree

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3. libyaml

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4. Geogram

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Neither the name of Inria nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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5. yaml-cpp

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6. Pyoptsparse

LAVA uses Pyoptsparse, a third-party library licensed under LGPL License 3.0.

For the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 and GNU General Public License v3.0, please visit: - LGPL v3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html - GPL v3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

7. Intel MKL

The LAVA executables compiled with Intel compilers statically link MKL which is distributed under the Intel Simplified Software License (Version October 2022)

PIN: Copyright (C) Intel Corporation

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8. Intel runtime libraries

The LAVA executables compiled with Intel compilers statically link the Intel runtime libraries - Intel® Fortran Core Library (libifcoremt) - Intel® Math Library (libimf) - Intel® OpenMP Runtime Library (libiomp5) - Intel® Runtime Core Library (libirc) - Intel® Random Number Generator Library (libirng) - Intel® Short Vector Math Library (libsvml)

These libraries are provided by Intel Corporation under the "Intel End User License Agreement for Developer Tools." Redistribution and use in binary form, without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of these libraries is permitted.
Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its suppliers may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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