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PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. BY USING THE PROGRAM YOU ARE
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ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OUTLINED IN THIS
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AGREEMENT. USERS WISHING TO USE THE SOFTWARE FOR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
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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)
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herewith (the Software) the copyright and other intellectual property
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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
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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
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confidence and will not use the same except for the purpose of their own
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research. The Software will be used only by such of the User's officers or
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employees to whom it must reasonably be communicated to enable them to
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undertake their research and who agree to be bound by the same confidence.
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The User shall procure and enforce such agreement from his or her staff for
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the benefit of the Copyright holder.
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2. The publication of research using the Software must include an
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appropriate citation to the method:
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Jones, D.T. (1999) Protein secondary structure prediction based on
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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
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prevent unauthorised access.
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4. Each copy of the Software or, if not practicable then, any package
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associated therewith shall be suitably marked (and such marking maintained)
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with the following copyright notice: "Copyright 2000 D.T.Jones. All Rights
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Reserved.".
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5. The Software may be modified, but any changes made shall be communicated
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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
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a commercial software package without the written permission of the Copyright
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holder. The Software may be used freely for individual academic or commercial
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research. The Software may also be made freely available for training or
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teaching purposes.
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7. The results produced by the Software may not be incorporated into any
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data banks or databases which are subject to the payment of access or
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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
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wide area network (including the Internet), but only if access is granted
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free of charge to all authorised users. Incorporation of the Software into
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a commercial Web site or other fee paying service is not allowed without
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the written permission of the Copyright holder. If PSIPRED results are
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returned to the user via such a network service, then a suitable
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acknowledgement of the PSIPRED method must be returned somewhere in the
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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
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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
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public domain or thereafter becomes so through no wrongful act of
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the User;
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(iii) to information and data which the User receives from a third
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party not in breach of any obligation of confidentiality owed to
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the Author(s).
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10. The User understands that the Software is supplied "as is". No warranty
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as to its fitness or suitability for any purpose whatsoever is made or
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implied. In no event shall the Author(s) or Copyright holder be held
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responsible for any direct or indirect damages arising through the use
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of the Software.
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