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The copyright and (lack of) warranty information most relevant to you is in the file COPYING that you got with your CVC4 source code, or received with any binary packaging of CVC4. The 1.0 release is covered by the following copyright:

CVC4 is copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 the ACSys research group at
the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
All rights reserved.

CVC4 is open-source; distribution is under the terms of the modified BSD
license.  However, certain builds of CVC4 link against GPLed libraries,
and therefore the use of these builds is restricted in non-open-source
projects.  See below for a discussion of CLN and how to ensure you have
a build that doesn't link against GPLed libraries.

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.

-- Morgan Deters <mdeters@cs.nyu.edu>  Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:56:41 -0500

CVC4 incorporates MiniSat code, excluded from the above copyright.
See src/sat/minisat.  Its copyright:

  MiniSat -- Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Niklas Een, Niklas Sorensson