About
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Contact us
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**Metasyn** is a project by the `ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) <https://odissei-data.nl/nl/soda/>`_ team and is currently being maintained by Erik-Jan van Kesteren, Raoul Schram and Samuel Spithorst.

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Do you have questions, suggestions, or remarks on the technical implementation? We welcome your feedback and contributions!

GitHub repository and issue tracker
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Feel free to check out our `GitHub repository <https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn>`_ for the latest updates and to browse the source code.
If you encounter any problems or have ideas for improvements, please file an issue on our `GitHub issue tracker <https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/issues>`_.

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Contributing
^^^^^^^^^^^^

We highly encourage and appreciate pull requests (PRs) from the community. If you want to discover how you can contribute to metasyn, please refer to our :doc:`/developer/developer`

Maintainers
^^^^^^^^^^^

Feel free to contact one of the maintainers directly:

* Erik-Jan van Kesteren: `https://github.com/vankesteren <https://github.com/vankesteren>`_

* Raoul Schram: `https://github.com/qubixes <https://github.com/qubixes>`_

License
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Metasyn is released under the MIT License.

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   MIT License

   Copyright (c) 2024 SoDa

   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
   of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
   in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
   to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
   copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
   furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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   AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
   LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
   OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
   SOFTWARE.

This means that you are free to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies of metasyn. However, please note the following conditions:

1. You must include the above copyright notice and permission notice in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

2. The software is provided "as is," without any warranties or guarantees of any kind. The authors or copyright holders shall not be liable for any claim, damages, or other liability arising from the use or distribution of the software.

By using metasyn, you agree to comply with the terms and conditions of the MIT License.

For more details about the MIT License, please visit: `MIT License <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>`_.