The program has been written by Alexander Stukowski and other contributors and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (v3).
This manual has been written by Alexander Stukowski and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
The following third-party codes and libraries are used as part of OVITO:
Qt and Qt Creator (GNU General Public License v3).
Python (PSF license)
Geogram library by Bruno Levy, INRIA - ALICE (license).
Tachyon Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System by John E. Stone (license).
Botan library (BSD-2 license).
Libav library (GNU General Public License v2).
zlib library
Polyhedral Template Matching library by Peter Mahler Larsen (license).
QCP rotation calculation method by Pu Liu and Douglas L. Theobald (license).
GSD (General Simulation Data) I/O routines (license).
PyQt5 library (GNU General Public License v3).
QScintilla2 library (GNU General Public License v3).
FFTW (GNU General Public License).