Licensing and Copyright Notice and Terms of Use
Owner Notice: This software (including any associated website-service or downloadable source (code) was developed by the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), a research and development division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
The following terms and conditions are based on the BSD open-source license.
If publishing research that used this software, please include a citation that acknowledges it.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted for commercial and non-commercial purposes and products alike, provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code shall retain the above Owner Notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer, and display them prominently.
- Redistributions in binary form shall prominently reproduce the above Owner Notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- Neither the names of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), nor the names of any of the software contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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