Earth System Model Evaluation Tool Core VERSION 2.0 (the Software) License

PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE ("LICENSE") CAREFULLY. USE OF THE SOFTWARE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THIS LICENSE AND TERMS

DATE: 6 February 2019
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THIS LICENSE APPLIES TO THE ESMValCore VERSION 2.0 THAT IS RELEASED AS OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE UNDER THE APACHE LICENSE

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Copyright 2008- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) and partners (see below). All rights reserved.

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(1) ESMValCore VERSION 2.0 CORE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
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Copyright 2008- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany - ESMValTool Co-PI
Copyright 2020- Met Office, UK - ESMValTool Co-PI
Copyright 2017- Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), Germany
Copyright 2017- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
Copyright 2016- Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
Copyright 2017- Netherlands e-Science Center (NLeSC), The Netherlands
Copyright 2019- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Copyright 2011- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
Copyright 2017- University of Reading, UK

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(2) ESMValCore VERSION 2.0 PREPROCESSOR
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COPYRIGHT 2008- ALL CORE DEVELOPERS (see under (1))

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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Users who apply the Software resulting in presentations or papers are kindly asked to cite the following “Software Documentation Paper” alongside with the Software doi (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3952695) and version number:
Righi et al., Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - technical overview, Geosci. Model Dev., 2020.

Besides the above citation, users are kindly asked to register any journal articles (or other scientific documents) that use the Software at ESMValTool webpage (see https://www.esmvaltool.org/).
Citing the Software Documentation Paper and registering your paper(s) will serve to document the scientific impact of the Software, which is of vital importance for securing future funding. You should consider this an obligation if you have taken advantage of the Software, which represents the end product of considerable effort by the development team.

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In addition to using the Software, we encourage the community to join the Software Development Team and to contribute additional diagnostics and performance metrics or other software improvements. Contributing back the new diagnostics and performance metrics or other software improvements will help to enhance the capability of the Software, which is of vital importance for securing future funding. You should consider this an obligation if you have taken advantage of the Software, which represents a product of considerable effort by the development team.

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To join the ESMValTool Development Team, please contact Dr. Birgit Hassler (birgit.hassler@dlr.de) and Dr. Axel Lauer (axel.lauer@dlr.de).

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