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This package also includes dynamic libraries for OpenDSS. OpenDSS is Copyright (c) 2008-2015, Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. It is published under a three-clause BSD license. See here:

http://sourceforge.net/p/electricdss/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/License.txt
http://sourceforge.net/p/electricdss/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

This package also includes dynamic libraries for KLUSolve. KLUSolve 1.0 is Copyright (c) 2008, EnerNex Corporation. It is published under the LGPL, version 2.1 or later. For code and license information, see the following:

http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/
http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/License.txt

KLUSolve contains open-source copyrighted code as follows. These are also released under the LGPL, version 2.1 or later.

KLU Version 1.0, May 31, 2007, by Timothy A. Davis and Ekanathan Palamadai. Copyright (C) 2004-2007, University of Florida.

http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/KLU/

CSparse: a Concise Sparse Matrix package. Version 2.2.0, Copyright (c) 2006-2007, Timothy A. Davis, Mar 31, 2007.

http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/CSparse/
http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/CSparse/Doc/License.txt

AMD Version 2.2, Copyright (c) 2007 by Timothy A. Davis, Patrick R. Amestoy, and Iain S. Duff.

http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/AMD/

BTF Version 1.0, May 31, 2007, by Timothy A. Davis Copyright (C) 2004-2007, University of Florida

http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/BTF/

CZSparse, Copyright (c) 2008, EnerNex Corporation.

http://sourceforge.net/p/klusolve/code/HEAD/tree/CZSparse/

