Licensing

The Quantum Development Kit is provided with an extensive collection of open-source functions and operations, licensed under the MIT license. The portions of the standard library that are portable across target machines can be obtained from the Microsoft/QuantumLibraries repository on GitHub, along with other libraries, such as the quantum chemistry library.

Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit also provides specialized library functions and operations that are licensed under a Microsoft Research license. These can be obtained from the Microsoft/Quantum-NC repository on GitHub.

There are also many samples that explain and illustrate the use of functions and operations from the standard library and other libraries. These samples are licensed under the MIT license. The samples can be obtained from the Microsoft/Quantum repository on GitHub.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit CLA.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (for example, label or comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.