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VMD is Copyright © 1995-2015
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group and the
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Portions of this code are copyright © 1997-1998 Andrew Dalke.
The terms for using, copying, modifying, and distributing VMD are
specified by the VMD License. The license agreement is distributed
with VMD in the file LICENSE. If for any reason you do not have this
file in your distribution, it can be downloaded from:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/LICENSE.html
Some of the code and executables used by VMD have their own
usage restrictions:
- ACTC
ACTC, the triangle consolidation library used in some versions of VMD,
is Copyright (C) 2000, Brad Grantham and Applied Conjecture,
all rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
must display the following acknowledgment:
This product includes software developed by Brad Grantham and
Applied Conjecture.
4. Neither the name Brad Grantham nor Applied Conjecture
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.
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to Brad Grantham's current address (grantham@plunk.org as of September
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- Python
Python is made available subject to the terms and conditions in CNRI's
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1895.22/1012
- PCRE
The Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library used in VMD
was written by Philip Hazel and is Copyright (c) 1997-1999
University of Cambridge.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on any
computer system, and to redistribute it freely, subject to the following
restrictions:
1. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by
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misrepresented as being the original software.
4. If PCRE is embedded in any software that is released under the GNU
General Purpose License (GPL), then the terms of that license shall
supersede any condition above with which it is incompatible.
- STRIDE
STRIDE, the program used for secondary structure calculation, is
free to both academic and commercial sites provided that STRIDE will
not be a part of a package sold for money. The use of STRIDE in
commercial packages is not allowed without a prior written
commercial license agreement. See
http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/argos/stride/stride_info.html
- SURF
The source code for SURF is copyrighted by the original author,
Amitabh Varshney, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
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WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.
This software was developed and is made available for public use with
the support of the National Institutes of Health, National Center for
Research Resources under grant RR02170.
- Tachyon
The Tachyon multiprocessor ray tracing system and derivative code built
into VMD is Copyright (c) 1994-2015 by John E. Stone.
See the Tachyon distribution for redistribution and licensing information.
- Desmond and Maestro plugins by D. E. Shaw Research
Copyright 2009, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC
All rights reserved.
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