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ADIOS is freely available under the terms of the BSD license given below.

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Note about Mini-XML
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The src/mxml/mxml-2.9 subdirectory contains the unmodified code of Mini-XML 2.9 which is otherwise freely accessible from
   http://www.msweet.org/projects.php/Mini-XML
The author of that open source software is Michael Sweet
The mxml-2.9 library comes with the LGPL v2 license, see src/mxml/mxml-2.9/COPYING
ADIOS can be linked with a pre-installed mxml library otherwise it will build mxml from this included source.

Note about ZFP
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The src/zfp/zfp-0.5.0 subdirectory contains the unmodified code of ZFP which is otherwise freely accessible from
  http://computation.llnl.gov/projects/floating-point-compression
The author of that open source software is Peter Lindstrom
The zfp library comes with a BSD license, see src/zfp/zfp-0.5.0/COPYING
ADIOS can be linked with a pre-installed zfp library otherwise it will build zfp from this included source.