| 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 |
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| * NOTE RECENT CHANGES TO PARAGRAPH 8 * |
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| PSIPRED2 - PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION PROGRAM BY D.T.JONES |
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| GENERAL LICENSE & |
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| CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT |
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| 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). |
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| 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:- |
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| 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. |
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| 2. The publication of research using the Software must include an |
| appropriate citation to the method: |
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| Jones, D.T. (1999) Protein secondary structure prediction based on |
| position-specific scoring matrices. J. Mol. Biol. 292:195-202. |
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| 3. All forms of the Software will be kept in a reasonably secure place to |
| prevent unauthorised access. |
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| 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.". |
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| 5. The Software may be modified, but any changes made shall be communicated |
| to the Author(s) and made freely available. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 9. The confidentiality obligation in paragraph one shall not apply: |
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| (i) to information and data known to the User at the time of |
| receipt hereunder (as evidenced by its written records); |
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| (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; |
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| (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). |
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| 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. |