ACADEMIC LICENSE
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This license is designed to guarantee freedom to share and change software for
academic use, but restricting commercial firms from exploiting your knowhow for
their benefit. The precise terms and conditions for using, copying,
distribution, and modification follow.
Terms and Conditions for Using, Copying, Distribution, and Modification
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The "Program" below refers to source, object and executable code, and a "work
based on the Program" means any derivative work under copyright law: that is a
work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with
modifications and/or translated into another language. Each licensee is
addressed as "you".
1. This license applies to you only if you are a member of a noncommercial
and academic institution, e.g., a university. The license expires as soon
as you are no longer a member of this institution.
2. Every publication and presentation for which work based on the Program or
its output has been used must contain an appropriate citation and
acknowledgment of the author(s) of the Program.
3. In order to facilitate keeping track of (correct) usage of this Program,
you must not distribute the Program as such, with no modifications;
possible exceptions being "mirror sites" or similar that must be agreed
upon with the authors or maintainers of the Program. You can, however,
distribute work based on the Program in source, object, or executable
form where significant changes are made to the Program, provided that you
also meet all of the following conditions:
3.1. You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge under the terms of
this License. You must accompany it with this unmodified license
text.
3.2. These requirements apply to work based on the Program as a whole. If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, this License does not apply to those sections when you
distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same
sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program,
the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License,
whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole
and, thus, to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. You
must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
that you changed the files and the date of any change.
3.3. You must keep track of access to the Program.
3.4. You must accompany it with the complete corresponding
machine-readable source code.
3.5. You must notify the authors of the Program or its current maintainer
of your distribution and accept to give them, upon request, the list
of everybody who accessed the program (see point 3.3.).
If you distribute work based on the program that uses the Program as a
unmodified library, you should not, in principle, re-distribute the
Program along with it. Exceptions can be agreed upon with the authors or
maintainer of the Program.
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code
means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control
compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special
exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is
normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major
components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which
the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the
executable.
4. You may not copy, modify, sub-license, or distribute the Program except
as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy,
modify, sub-license, or distribute the Program is void and will
automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties
who have received copies or rights from you under this License will not
have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full
compliance.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed
it. However, nothing else grants you permission to use, modify, or
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by using,
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program),
you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so and all its terms
and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or
works based on it.
6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions
on the recipient's exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not
responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement, or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this License.
8. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other programs whose
distribution conditions are different, write to the authors of the
program to ask for permission. If you are contacted by people who wish to
incorporate parts of a work derived by the Program that you distribute
(except those identifiable sections of that work that are not derived
from the Program and can be reasonably considered independent and
separate works in themselves mentioned at 3.2.), you still need
permission from the authors of the original Program.
NO WARRANTY
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9. Because the program is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty for
the program to the extent permitted by applicable law. The copyright
holders provide the program "as is" without warranty of any kind, either
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The
entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you.
Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary
servicing, repair, or correction.
10. In no event will any copyright holder, or any other party who may modify
and/or redistribute the program as permitted above, be liable to you for
damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential
damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program (including
but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or
losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to
operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has
been advised of the possibility of such damages.
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Freely adapted from the ZIB academic license, version 7/1/2000.
Author: Antonio Frangioni, 12/10/2004.
(as found [2007-09-09] at
http://www.di.unipi.it/optimize/Software/academicl.txt
)
