.. _about:
About scipp
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Development
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Scipp is a open source project by the `European Spallation Source ERIC `_ (ESS).
Other major contributions were provided by the `Science and Technology Facilities Council `_ (UKRI-STFC).
References and citations
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An article about scipp has been published in the conference proceedings of ICANS, see `Scipp: Scientific data handling with labeled multi-dimensional arrays for C++ and Python `_ or `the paywall-free copy on the Arxiv `_.
A significant amount of changes such as multi-threading and support for binned (event) data has gone into scipp since the publication so we recommend to also cite the scipp documentation pages.
License
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Scipp is available as open source under the `BSD-3 license `_.
Source code and development
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Scipp is hosted and developed `on GitHub `_.