Relicencing of Primer3
Dear all,
Good news, Primer3 is on the way to be relicenced!
Here is its prospective new licence (BSD style). I think that it is OK,
but please tell me if you find something wrong.
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Copyright (c) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2004,2006 Whitehead
Institute for Biomedical Researcy, Steve Rozen, and Helen Skaletsky
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright 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 copyright holders nor contributors may
be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
OWNERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
We request but do not require that use of this software be cited in
publications as
Steve Rozen and Helen J. Skaletsky (2000) Primer3 on the WWW for
general users and for biologist programmers. In: Krawetz S, Misener S
(eds) Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols: Methods in Molecular
Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 365-386. Source code available
at http://fokker.wi.mit.edu/primer3/.
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Have a nice day,
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Charles Plessy
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