From NEST

NEST is available under the open source NEST License, which stipulates in particular that you and your work group

• may use NEST for research, teaching and other non-commercial purposes;
• may modify and improve NEST provided that you do not remove any copyright and similar notices;
• may not distribute NEST to others;
• must cite NEST appropriately in any publications based on NEST;
• should inform us about any publication based on NEST.

NEST 2.0

A development snapshot of what will be released as NEST 2.0 and as discussed in

• A. Morrison, S. Straube, H. E. Plesser, and M. Diesmann. Exact Subthreshold Integration with Continuous Spike Times in Discrete Time Neural Network Simulations Neural Computation 19:47-79, 2007.
• R. Brette et al. Simulation of networks of spiking neurons: A review of tools and strategies. http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.NC/0611089

is available only upon request currently. Please contact Marc-Oliver Gewaltig (marc-oliver.gewaltig at honda-ri dot de) if you would like to test NEST 2.

NEST 1.0

Old releases of NEST are available from our download page. However, we strongly advise you to get in touch with us to get access to the current release candidate of NEST 2.0.

The Python bindings for NEST 1.0 can be downloaded here: Image:Pynest1.tgz. This download is not needed for NEST 2.0, as it already contains the bindings as the default interface.