Although it is not ‘free’ software in the GNU GPL sense, the CASINO software is made available on request to anyone who asks for it, subject to certain conditions of use enforced by the user accepting our licence agreement. The practical upshot of the licence conditions is that users may not redistribute the code, they may not incorporate any part of it into any other program system, nor may they modify it in any way whatsoever without prior agreement of the authors (though such permission in practice is generally easy to obtain for serious people who know what they’re doing). No payment is required from academic or private users wishing to use the code for non-profit making purposes. Users who wish to use the code for profit-making purposes are asked to discuss their proposed work with the authors of CASINO. That said, we of course appreciate people making donations (note to taxman – no-one ever has).

Users who are happy with the above and wish to obtain a copy of CASINO can now fill in and submit the request form online. This will give you immediate access to the standard version of the CASINO distribution. Submitting the form will also trigger a request for a CASINO login ID and password which can be used to (1) download future updates of the code from this page, (2) participate in the CASINO discussion forum, and (3) login to this website (see right-hand sidebar) and contribute Blog and Project posts to inform interested people about your research.  The form has a collection of tick boxes with which one may request access to the discussion forum, this CASINOQMC web site, and the developer distribution of CASINO, as well as requests for information about CASINO summer schools. This latter stuff requires the manual intervention of the CASINO administrator so please don’t be upset if it takes  a couple of days.