Licensing information
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This is the software distribution of Nice, a NICE way to test OpenFlow controller applications

Nice is covered by the BSD 3-clause license, as follows.

Copyright (c) 2011, EPFL (Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne)
All rights reserved.

Created by Marco Canini, Daniele Venzano, Dejan Kostic, Jennifer Rexford
Contributors: Peter Peresini, Maciej Kuzniar

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The NOX API
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Parts of NICE (the files under sym_exec/sym_exec_lib and model_checker/nox_lib/)
re-implement parts of the NOX API. While some code has been copied and pasted,
most of it has been rewritten and only the method names and parameters have been
retained.
NOX is available at: http://noxrepo.org
NOX is covered by the GPLv3

Sample NOX Apps
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The Pyswitch application is taken as-is from the NOX distribution and is covered
by GPL.

Third-party software distributed with NICE
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This distribution package contains also:

- pystp: A Python extension module for STP
  http://code.google.com/p/pystp/
  GPLv2 or later

- STP Constraint Solver library
  Copyright (c) 2008 Vijay Ganesh
  MIT license (see LICENSE.stp)
  http://sites.google.com/site/stpfastprover/

