Credits & License#
Brightway was originally developed by Chris Mutel during his doctoral research project. Brightway would have been possible without the incredibly generous support of Professor Stefanie Hellweg of ETH Zürich. Today, Brightway is a highly active software ecosystem maintained by developers and life-cycle practitioners from academia and industry.
Citation#
If you use Brighway in your academic research, please cite the primary publication in the Journal of Open Source Software: 
Mutel, C. 2017. Brightway: An open source framework for Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Open Source Software, 12:2. https://doi.org/10.21105%2Fjoss.00236.
License#
Different parts of the Brightway software are licensed under variations of the the BSD license. For more information, compare the license files in the respective repositories. The most recent general license terms:
Copyright © 2023, Brightway Developers
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
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following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
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Neither the name of ETH Zurich or Paul Scherrer Institute
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