Availability

FIT2D is freely available to the academic community and to all ESRF users in return for the normal considerations e.g.

1. Work using these programs should acknowledge accordingly, and in the case of publications suitable citations should be made. (Having ones name occasionally added to the end of a list of authors is clearly not to be discouraged.)

2. There is no warranty that the code and/or methods are correct. (Users should always be very suspicious of any program including FIT2D. You should always try testing code with examples which you (think you) know what results should be given).

3. Generally source code will not be willingly circulated, be in some circumstances it will need to be. Users are not allowed to modify code (remove names and add their own). In the case of bug fixes these MUST (for the good of everyone) be send back to me. (Parallel diverging versions need to be avoided.)

4. Comments and other feedback are most welcome, but no guarantee can be given of the possibility to add particular features to the programs. I'll just have to see what I can and can't do. Clearly small changes are much more likely to be incorporated than features which do not fall within the design of the programs.

Non-academic companies will need to make special arrangements.