Advice: following the Italian Law (D.L. 29 December 1992, n. 518), computer programs developed in Italy are completely equivalent to literature operas (books).
The Italian law is in full accordance with the EC Directive 91/250/CEE.
As a consequence, Aurora software is published (not sold, nor licensed). Copyright law applies (Berne's convention), not patent law.
The Aurora software is not patented, and does not contain technology constrained by existing patents - as Aurora is legally equivalent to a publication, the original technology contained in Aurora is not patentable. The author is against software patents of any kind! However, Aurora contains also technology developed by other authors, and described in their publications. Follow this link for the scientific papers written by the author of Aurora, which contain proper credit and citation to those authors.
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