Vampire Licence

Since November 2020 we have moved Vampire to a permissive Modified BSD licence (see below). This supersedes all previous licences.

This licence now expliciltly allows commercial use of Vampire.

As noted below, some software included with Vampire is available under different licences. For example, both minisat and z3 are used internally by Vampire.

Vampire licence - BSD 3-Clause

Vampire Software Licence Agreement
Copyright 2020

Vampire is copyright (C) 2020 by its authors and contributors (see AUTHORS in the repository) and their institutional affiliations. All rights reserved.

The Vampire licence is a (modified) BSD 3-Clause licence. This Vampire licence supersedes all previous licences covering usage of Vampire.

The source code of Vampire is open and available to students, researchers, software companies, and everyone else to study, to modify, and to redistribute original or modified versions; distribution is under the terms of the modified BSD licence (reproduced below).

Note that some software included with Vampire is available under a more permissive licence. For example, both Minisat and Z3 are used internally by Vampire.

In the below, this Software refers to Vampire in any form.

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, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ''AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.