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License

MIT License

GWexpy is licensed under the MIT License, a permissive open-source license that allows you to:

✓ Use the software for any purpose (commercial, academic, personal)
✓ Modify and distribute the software
✓ Sublicense the software

Conditions:

• Include a copy of the license and copyright notice

• The software is provided “as is” without warranty

Full License Text

The complete license text is available in the repository:

LICENSE.txt

Why MIT?

The MIT License was chosen for GWexpy because it:

1. Encourages adoption - Permissive license removes barriers to use

2. Supports collaboration - Derived works can use different licenses

3. Academic-friendly - Widely used in research software

4. Commercial-friendly - Allows proprietary derivatives

Third-Party Licenses

GWexpy depends on open-source software with the following licenses:

Package	License
NumPy	BSD
SciPy	BSD
Pandas	BSD
Matplotlib	PSF
GWpy	GPL-3.0+
Astropy	BSD

For the complete list of dependencies and their licenses, run:

pip show gwexpy
# or for detailed info:
pip-licenses

Contributing

By contributing to GWexpy, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the same MIT License. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

Questions?

If you have questions about licensing, feel free to open an issue on GitHub Issues.