Copyright and Licensing

No Warranty

Because MacSpice is is a computer program licensed free of charge, there is no warranty for MacSpice, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. MacSpice is provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program rests with the user. Should the program prove defective, the user must assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

Copyright

MacSpice 3f5 is copyright Charles D. H. Williams and may not be used for commercial purposes – or republished or redistributed in any form – without explicit written permission.

MacSpice includes (in accordance with their terms and conditions) copyright material supplied by others, all rights reserved:

• Berkeley Spice 3f5:
  Copyright (c) 1985-1991 The Regents of the University of California.
   
• BSIM3 and BSIM4:
  Developed by the Device Research Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley and copyrighted by the University of California.
   
• Color Postscript Hardcopy Driver:
  Copyright 2003 Werner Hoch.
   
• EPFL-EKV 2.6 MOST Model Code:
  Copyright 2001 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
   
• HiSIM (Hiroshima University STARC IGFET Model):
  Copyright 2003 STARC Physical Design Group.
   
• OpenSSL Toolkit Components:
  Copyright 1998-2005, The OpenSSL Project.
   
• Parker-Skellern MESFET model:
  Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 Macquarie University.
   
• Sparkle v1.5 Update Management System:
  Copyright (c) 2007 Andy Matuschak
   
• Sparkle For Carbon v0.2 Carbon API:
  Copyright (c) 2007 Jack Small
   
• Sparse 1.4:
  Copyright (c) 2003, Kenneth S. Kundert.
   
• STAG version 2.6:
  Copyright 2000 United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence acting through the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.
   
• UFSOI MOSFET models:
  Copyright 2001 University of Florida.
   
• UKCrashReporter:
  Copyright 2006 by M. Uli Kusterer.
   

Fulfilment of BSD-style Licence Requirements

Some of the above software requires a reproduction of their licence or or quasi-legal statements to be included in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. These are reproduced here and a copy is included in the MacSpice application package.

Acknowledgements

Many people have contributed to MacSpice in its various incarnations (see the copyright section above). It started life as a Mac port of Berkeley Spice 3f4 by Reto Tischhauser (MacSpice 3f4 v2.4). The code was then passed to Anthony Wilson who developed it into MacSpice DR1. Charles Williams took over in 2001 and developed the final MacSpice DR5 Classic release followed by rewrites MacSpice 3f5 v2.8 which used the Carbon libraries to run on Classic MacOS 8.6 and later, and as a native Aqua application on OS X.