MDC-ELLIPSOIDs License and Copyright

MDC-ELLIPSOIDs is a collection of MATLAB functions to calculate the minimum distance between ellipsoidal surfaces.
MDC-ELLIPSOIDs is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License. (CC) 2010 Daniel Simões Lopes.

Authors Acknowledgment
If you use MDC-ELLIPSOIDs in any program or publication, please acknowledge its authors by adding a reference to the Multibody Dynamics System paper:
D.S. Lopes, M.T. Silva, J.A. Ambrósio, and P. Flores, A mathematical framework for contact detection between quadric and superquadric surfaces, Multibody System Dynamics, 24(3): 255 — 280, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s11044-010-9220-0

Non-Commercial use
Everyone can download the MDC-ELLIPSOIDs under the following Creative Commons use license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
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to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work;
to make derivative works.

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Commercial Use
The license above excludes every for-profit use of the code including, but non exclusively, development, testing, and certification of products or services. The authors can release a license for commercial use, and the payment of a one-time fee. Please contact us for any information on this matter.