# Credits and license

The program has been written by Alexander Stukowski and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

This manual has been written by Alexander Stukowski and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The following third-party libraries are used by OVITO:

- Qt and Qt Creator, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

- QCustomPlot by Emanuel Eichhammer, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

- Computational Geometry Algorithms Library, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

- Tachyon Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System by John E. Stone (license).

- muParser by Ingo Berg (license).

- Botan library

- Libav library

- netCDF library by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata (license).