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diff --git a/licenses/psipred b/licenses/psipred new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7f797d17d --- /dev/null +++ b/licenses/psipred @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. BY USING THE PROGRAM YOU ARE +ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OUTLINED IN THIS +AGREEMENT. USERS WISHING TO USE THE SOFTWARE FOR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES +NOT COVERED BY THIS AGREEMENT SHOULD SEND E-MAIL TO: dtj@cs.ucl.ac.uk + +* NOTE RECENT CHANGES TO PARAGRAPH 8 * + + + + PSIPRED2 - PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION PROGRAM BY D.T.JONES + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + GENERAL LICENSE & + ----------------- + + CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT + ------------------------- + + + +In regard to the protein structure prediction program (PSIPRED2) +herewith (the Software) the copyright and other intellectual property +rights to which belong to the Author(s). + +Any user (the User) of the program undertakes to the Copyright holder that he +or she shall be bound by the following terms and conditions:- + +1. The User will receive the Software and any related documentation in +confidence and will not use the same except for the purpose of their own +research. The Software will be used only by such of the User's officers or +employees to whom it must reasonably be communicated to enable them to +undertake their research and who agree to be bound by the same confidence. +The User shall procure and enforce such agreement from his or her staff for +the benefit of the Copyright holder. + +2. The publication of research using the Software must include an +appropriate citation to the method: + +Jones, D.T. (1999) Protein secondary structure prediction based on +position-specific scoring matrices. J. Mol. Biol. 292:195-202. + +3. All forms of the Software will be kept in a reasonably secure place to +prevent unauthorised access. + +4. Each copy of the Software or, if not practicable then, any package +associated therewith shall be suitably marked (and such marking maintained) +with the following copyright notice: "Copyright 2000 D.T.Jones. All Rights +Reserved.". + +5. The Software may be modified, but any changes made shall be communicated +to the Author(s) and made freely available. + +6. The Software may not be sold as a standalone package, or incorporated into +a commercial software package without the written permission of the Copyright +holder. The Software may be used freely for individual academic or commercial +research. The Software may also be made freely available for training or +teaching purposes. + +7. The results produced by the Software may not be incorporated into any +data banks or databases which are subject to the payment of access or +license fees without the written permission of the Copyright holder. + +8. The Software may be made available to users over a local network or +wide area network (including the Internet), but only if access is granted +free of charge to all authorised users. Incorporation of the Software into +a commercial Web site or other fee paying service is not allowed without +the written permission of the Copyright holder. If PSIPRED results are +returned to the user via such a network service, then a suitable +acknowledgement of the PSIPRED method must be returned somewhere in the +output text. + +9. The confidentiality obligation in paragraph one shall not apply: + + (i) to information and data known to the User at the time of + receipt hereunder (as evidenced by its written records); + + (ii) to information and data which was at the time of receipt in the + public domain or thereafter becomes so through no wrongful act of + the User; + + (iii) to information and data which the User receives from a third + party not in breach of any obligation of confidentiality owed to + the Author(s). + +10. The User understands that the Software is supplied "as is". No warranty + as to its fitness or suitability for any purpose whatsoever is made or + implied. In no event shall the Author(s) or Copyright holder be held + responsible for any direct or indirect damages arising through the use + of the Software. |