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License
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.. NOTE::

   This page refers only to the license for Ceres itself, independent of its
   optional dependencies which are separately licensed and which can affect
   the resulting license of Ceres if built with them enabled.  See
   :ref:`options-controlling-ceres-configuration` for an overview of these
   implications.

Ceres Solver is licensed under the New BSD license, whose terms are as follows.

Copyright 2023 Google Inc. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1.    Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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      and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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      be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
      specific prior written permission.

This software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors "AS IS" and
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