PIVTools
Copyright 2025 University of Southampton

This product includes software developed at the University of Southampton,
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Principal Developer:
  Morgan Taylor (m.t.taylor@soton.ac.uk)

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                              LICENSING NOTICE
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PIVTools source code is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.

IMPORTANT - GPL Dependencies:
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Pre-built binaries link against the following GPL-licensed libraries:

  * FFTW3 (http://www.fftw.org/) - GPL v2 or later
  * GNU Scientific Library (GSL, https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/) - GPL v3

Binary distributions that include these libraries must comply with GPL terms,
unless you replace them with alternatively-licensed implementations or obtain
a commercial FFTW license.

Proprietary Dependencies (Restricted License):
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  * lvpyio (LaVision GmbH) - "Free To Use But Restricted"
    Required only for reading LaVision .im7/.set files (Windows/Linux only).
    Subject to LaVision's license terms. Contact: python@lavision.de
    Optional - use standard image formats (.tif, .png) to avoid this dependency.

Other Dependencies:
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This software uses various third-party open-source libraries (NumPy, SciPy,
OpenCV, Flask, etc.) which are distributed under permissive licenses (BSD,
MIT, Apache 2.0). See each package's documentation for specific license terms.
