Toast++ License

The Toast++ software package is distributed by the copyright owners under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The full text of the license is included with the Toast++ source files, or can be found online.

The license places copyleft restrictions on the Toast++ package. Essentially, anyone can use the software for any purpose (commercial or non-commercial), the source code for the toolbox is freely available, and anyone can redistribute the software (in its original form or modified) as long as the distributed product comes with the full source code and is also licensed under the GPL. You can make private modified versions of the toolbox without any obligation to divulge the modifications so long as the modified software is not distributed to anyone else. The copyleft restrictions only apply directly to the toolbox, but not to other (non-derivative) software that simply links to or uses the toolbox.

Toast++ is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Citing Toast++

If you make use of Toast++ in your academic work, please cite it with

M. Schweiger and S. R. Arridge, The Toast++ software suite for forward and inverse modeling in optical tomography, J Biomed Opt (2014) [in press]

(along with any other relevant publications). This paper is the principal reference for Toast++ and gives an overview of its features and design.