LICENSE AGREEMENT

VESTA is currently copyrighted with its source code not open to the public; we wish to control the development and future of VESTA by ourselves. This software is distributed free of charge for academic, scientific, educational, and non-commercial users. Users belonging to commercial enterprises may also use this software at no cost until a license for business users is established.

Permission to use this software is hereby granted under the following conditions: 

1.

Drawings produced by VESTA may be used in any publications (original and review articles) provided that its use is explicitly acknowledged. A suitable reference for VESTA is:

K. Momma and F. Izumi, “VESTA 3 for three-dimensional visualization of crystal, volumetric and morphology data,” J. Appl. Crystallogr., 44, 1272–1276 (2011).

2.

You should not redistribute any copy of the distributed files including MADEL and STRUCTURE TIDY unless you have a written permission from us.

Part of these terms may be changed without any prior announcement. This software is provided “as is” without any expressed or implied warranty.