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License and attribution information

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License for statnet</h3> This software is distributed under the GPL-3 license. It is free, open source, and has the following attribution requirements (GPL Section 7):

1. you agree to retain in statnet and any modifications to statnet the copyright, author attribution and URL information as provided at a <a href="http://statnetproject.org/attribution">http://statnetproject.org/attribution</a>.
2. you agree that statnet and any modifications to statnet will, when used, display the attribution:

   Based on 'statnet' project software (<a href="http://statnetproject.org/">http://statnetproject.org</a>). For license and citation information see <a href="http://statnetproject.org/attribution">http://statnetproject.org/attribution</a>

What does this mean?

If you are modifying statnet or adopting any source code from statnet for use in another application, you must ensure that the copyright and attributions mentioned in the license above appear in the code of your modified version or application. These attributions must also appear when the package is loaded (e.g., via "library" or "require").
<p> In addition, if you are using the statnet package or any of the component packages for research that will be published, we request that you acknowledge this with a <a href="http://statnetproject.org/citation.html">citation</a>. See <a href="http://statnetproject.org/citation.html">http://statnetproject.org/citation.html</a>.

<p> <h2>License Information for the component packages (e.g., ergm)</h3> The licenses for these packages are similar to statnet. They can be found in the statnet package using the citation function, e.g.:

citation('ergm')

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