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Hi,

What can we do with the www.distributedfolding.org software, which is under this license (http://www.distributedfolding.org/license.html):

/*****************************************************************************
--  TRAjectory Directed Ensemble Sampling (TRADES)
--
--  Author: Howard J. Feldman, Christopher W.V. Hogue
--  June 7, 1999
--
--  Hogue Lab - University of Toronto Biochemistry Department
--  Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
--
--  Copyright Notice:
--
--  Copyright ©1999. Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. All Rights
-- Reserved. --
--  Disclaimer:
--
--  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
--  documentation for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes,
--  without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted,
--  provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the
--  following three paragraphs appear in all copies, modifications, and
--  distributions.
--
--  Contact Terry Donaghue, The Office of Technology Transfer & Industrial
--  Liaison, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Canada,
-- (416) 586-8225, for commercial licensing opportunities. -- -- IN NO EVENT SHALL MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR
--  DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
--  INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS
--  DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
-- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. --
--  MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
--  MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE AND
--  ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION, IF ANY, PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS PROVIDED "AS
--  IS". MOUNT SINAI  HOSPITAL  HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE,
--  SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
--
--
**************************************************************************/


So the software is clearly not DSFG compliant, but distribution is authorized not-for-profit. Could it go in non-free?

As a second hypothesis, we could write an installer for this software (a small package that would download the software on the user's machine during pre-inst, and install it). What section could it go to then? Contrib? Would there be something mandatory to do, like displaying the license, asking the user if he accepts it, ...?

Thanks for your answers.

Daniel




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