BioCoRE USER LICENSE Upon execution of this License by the party identified below ("User"), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ("Illinois"), on behalf of The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group ("TCBG") in the Beckman Institute, will authorize use of the Biological Collaborative Research Environment "BioCoRE" to User at the INSERT_LOCAL_SITE_NAME_HERE site, subject to the following terms and conditions. ATTRIBUTION OF USE The User agrees that any reports or published results obtained with BioCoRE will acknowledge its use by the appropriate citation as follows: "BioCoRE was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." Any published work which has utilized BioCoRE shall include the following reference: "Milind Bhandarkar, Gila Budescu, William F. Humphrey, Jesus A. Izaguirre, Sergei Izrailev, Laxmikant V. Kalé, Dorina Kosztin, Ferenc Molnar, James C. Phillips, and Klaus Schulten. BioCoRE: A collaboratory for structural biology. In Agostino G. Bruzzone, Adelinde Uchrmacher, and Ernest H. Page, editors, Proceedings of the SCS International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation, pages 242--251, San Francisco, California, 1999." Electronic documents will include a direct link to the official BioCoRE page at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/biocore/ SERVICE Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ILLINOIS MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS AND EXTENDS NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THAT THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHTS. USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS. USER AGREES THAT UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES WITH RESPECT TO ANY CLAIM BY USER OR ANY THIRD PARTY ON ACCOUNT OF OR ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS. SERVICE OWNERSHIP The Software is intellectual property owned by Illinois, and all rights, title and interest, including copyright, remain with Illinois. Illinois grants, and USER hereby accepts, a restricted, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the BioCoRE Service for academic, research and internal business purposes only, e.g. not for commercial use (see below), without a fee. Commercial use of the Software REQUIRES A COMMERCIAL LICENSE. Should the User wish to make commercial use of the Software, User will contact Illinois (biocore@ks.uiuc.edu) to negotiate an appropriate license for such use. Commercial use includes: (1) integration of all or part of the Software into a product for sale, lease or license by or on behalf of User to third parties, or (2) distribution of the Software to third parties that need it to commercialize product sold or licensed by or on behalf of User. CONTACT INFORMATION: The best contact path for licensing issues is by e-mail to biocore@ks.uiuc.edu or send correspondence to: BioCoRE Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group Beckman Institute University of Illinois 405 North Mathews MC-251 Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA FAX: (217) 244-6078Use of the TCB-UIUC BioCoRE server requires users to adhere to the TCB-UIUC BioCoRE bylaws.
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