# LICENSE

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), NIH.

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.
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  Notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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  * 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
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PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
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