CASINO is free to any academic or individual for use that makes no profit. A company that wishes to use it asks the authors for a commercial licence. It is not free software in the sense of the GNU licences: the authors keep the copyright and the intellectual property rights, and a user agrees, before a first download, to these conditions:

• to give a copy of CASINO to no one, to refer requests for copies to the authors, and to run it on the user’s own computers or on any computer at the user’s institution;
• neither to incorporate any part of its source code into another program nor to modify its source code without the written permission of the authors, which is usually very easy to obtain;
• to make no profit from it without the commercial licence;
• to cite, in any publication of results obtained with it, the paper given on the page How to cite;
• and to accept that CASINO is supplied as it is, without any guarantee that it is free of faults and without further responsibility or liability. Reports of faults are welcome.

The distribution carries the agreement in full, in its academic and commercial forms and in the form for public computer centres, in its doc directory.

Getting a first copy

Complete the form at Download CASINO. The standard version can then be downloaded at once. The form offers the latest release, which it recommends, and the current beta, which is rebuilt each time a change to the code is published. The same form requests the CASINO login that later downloads need, a login to the discussion forum and to this site, on which a user can describe published work in a post, and records an interest in the summer schools or in developing the code. The downloads are immediate; the logins and the developer distribution are set up by hand, so allow a day or two for them.

Updates

Later versions are downloaded with the login from Update CASINO. New versions are announced in the forum’s General announcements section, whose members are told of them by e-mail unless they choose not to be.

The developer version

The source code of the standard version is obfuscated, made deliberately hard to read. The developer version is the same program with its full source. A user accepted as a developer, as How to become a developer describes, downloads it from Download developer version and can be given read access to the source repository, which is kept with git; the distribution’s doc/GIT_GUIDE says how it is used and how a change is sent to the maintainer.