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BlackChirp is an open-source data acquisition program for chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectrometers written by Kyle N. Crabtree. While the program to date has only been used on Linux systems, it is potentially able to run on Windows and Mac OSX. BlackChirp is made available under version 3 of the GNU Public License. The text of this license and is included with the source code under the COPYING file and must be included in any distribution of the source code. The text of other licenses for subcomponents are included under COPYING.qwt and COPYING.lesser.

BlackChirp is based on the Qt Framework Open Source Edition licensed under version 3 of the GNU Public License. A copy of the Qt source code can be obtained from http://www.qt.io or from the author by written request. BlackChirp is based in part on the work of the Qwt project (http://qwt.sf.net) licensed under version 1.0 of the Qwt License. BlackChirp makes use of the GNU Scientific library licensed under version 3 of the GNU Public License. A copy of the GNU Scientific Library source code can be obtained from https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ or from the author by written request. BlackChirp uses icons from the Oxygen Icon set from the KDE Project (http://www.kde.org/) licensed under version 3.0 of the Lesser GNU Public License. SVG versions of these icons are available from https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Oxygen/.