License

Materials produced by employees of the United States Federal Government as part of their official duties are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under United States law and are therefore in the U.S. public domain. The Forest Vegetation Simulator is free and open-source software. It is released without any conditions upon its use, and is available to everyone without restriction.

The software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

The software package may include certain open source components that are subject to open source licenses, in which case, the embedded open source software is owned by a third party. The open source software is not subject to the terms and conditions of this license. Instead, each item of open source software is licensed under its applicable license terms. Nothing in this license limits your rights under, nor grants you rights that supersede, the terms and conditions of any applicable license terms for the open source software.