During the last year we have been astonished to discover two cases of improper (to our point of view) use of our names by scientific researchers that try to publish a comparative studies, interesting in promotion of their algorithms. Instead of comparing algorithms (i.e. cross-correlation versus error correlation, etc.) they had compared their packages (’XXX’,'YYY’) versus URAPIV and come (naturally :-)) to the conclusion of their advanced performance of a PIV analysis.
It is all nice, but we do not want that others will use it this way. Moreover, we always help our users with the support, tips and suggestions that lead to high-quality scientific research and publications. Therefore, we decided to try to protect our reputation by a “proper” license for URAPIV. We have adopted the BSD- type license (http://www.opensource.org):