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EnergyPlus, Copyright (c) 1996-2020, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, and other contributors. All rights reserved.

NOTICE: This Software was developed under funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Government consequently retains certain rights. As such, the U.S. Government has been granted for itself and others acting on its behalf a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license in the Software to reproduce, distribute copies to the public, prepare derivative works, and perform publicly and display publicly, and to permit others to do so.

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(4) Use of EnergyPlus(TM) Name. If Licensee (i) distributes the software in stand-alone form without changes from the version obtained under this License, or (ii) Licensee makes a reference solely to the software portion of its product, Licensee must refer to the software as "EnergyPlus version X" software, where "X" is the version number Licensee obtained under this License and may not use a different name for the software. Except as specifically required in this Section (4), Licensee shall not use in a company name, a product name, in advertising, publicity, or other promotional activities any name, trade name, trademark, logo, or other designation of "EnergyPlus", "E+", "e+" or confusingly similar designation, without the U.S. Department of Energy's prior written consent.

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