1PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. BY USING THE PROGRAM YOU ARE 2ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OUTLINED IN THIS 3AGREEMENT. USERS WISHING TO USE THE SOFTWARE FOR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES 4NOT COVERED BY THIS AGREEMENT SHOULD SEND E-MAIL TO: dtj@cs.ucl.ac.uk 5 6* NOTE RECENT CHANGES TO PARAGRAPH 8 * 7 8 9 10 PSIPRED2 - PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION PROGRAM BY D.T.JONES 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 13 GENERAL LICENSE & 14 ----------------- 15 16 CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 17 ------------------------- 18 19 20 21In regard to the protein structure prediction program (PSIPRED2) 22herewith (the Software) the copyright and other intellectual property 23rights to which belong to the Author(s). 24 25Any user (the User) of the program undertakes to the Copyright holder that he 26or she shall be bound by the following terms and conditions:- 27 281. The User will receive the Software and any related documentation in 29confidence and will not use the same except for the purpose of their own 30research. The Software will be used only by such of the User's officers or 31employees to whom it must reasonably be communicated to enable them to 32undertake their research and who agree to be bound by the same confidence. 33The User shall procure and enforce such agreement from his or her staff for 34the benefit of the Copyright holder. 35 362. The publication of research using the Software must include an 37appropriate citation to the method: 38 39Jones, D.T. (1999) Protein secondary structure prediction based on 40position-specific scoring matrices. J. Mol. Biol. 292:195-202. 41 423. All forms of the Software will be kept in a reasonably secure place to 43prevent unauthorised access. 44 454. Each copy of the Software or, if not practicable then, any package 46associated therewith shall be suitably marked (and such marking maintained) 47with the following copyright notice: "Copyright 2000 D.T.Jones. All Rights 48Reserved.". 49 505. The Software may be modified, but any changes made shall be communicated 51to the Author(s) and made freely available. 52 536. The Software may not be sold as a standalone package, or incorporated into 54a commercial software package without the written permission of the Copyright 55holder. The Software may be used freely for individual academic or commercial 56research. The Software may also be made freely available for training or 57teaching purposes. 58 597. The results produced by the Software may not be incorporated into any 60data banks or databases which are subject to the payment of access or 61license fees without the written permission of the Copyright holder. 62 638. The Software may be made available to users over a local network or 64wide area network (including the Internet), but only if access is granted 65free of charge to all authorised users. Incorporation of the Software into 66a commercial Web site or other fee paying service is not allowed without 67the written permission of the Copyright holder. If PSIPRED results are 68returned to the user via such a network service, then a suitable 69acknowledgement of the PSIPRED method must be returned somewhere in the 70output text. 71 729. The confidentiality obligation in paragraph one shall not apply: 73 74 (i) to information and data known to the User at the time of 75 receipt hereunder (as evidenced by its written records); 76 77 (ii) to information and data which was at the time of receipt in the 78 public domain or thereafter becomes so through no wrongful act of 79 the User; 80 81 (iii) to information and data which the User receives from a third 82 party not in breach of any obligation of confidentiality owed to 83 the Author(s). 84 8510. The User understands that the Software is supplied "as is". No warranty 86 as to its fitness or suitability for any purpose whatsoever is made or 87 implied. In no event shall the Author(s) or Copyright holder be held 88 responsible for any direct or indirect damages arising through the use 89 of the Software. 90