University of Illinois
BioCoRE Local Server
Non-Exclusive, Non-Commercial Use License
Upon execution of this Agreement by the party identified below
("Licensee"), 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 provide the BioCoRE local
server software ("BioCoRE") in Executable Code and/or Source Code form
("Software") to Licensee, subject to the following terms and
conditions. For purposes of this Agreement, Executable Code is the
compiled code, which is ready to run on Licensee's computer. Source
code consists of a set of files which contain the actual program
commands that are compiled to form the Executable Code.
1. The Software is intellectual property owned by Illinois, and all
right, title and interest, including copyright, remain with Illinois.
Illinois grants, and Licensee hereby accepts, a restricted,
non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Software for
academic, research and internal business purposes only, e.g. not for
commercial use (see Clause 7 below), without a fee.
2. Licensee may, at its own expense, create and freely distribute
complimentary works that interoperate with the Software (see
Restrictions in Clause 10, 11), directing others to the TCBG server to
license and obtain the Software itself. Licensee may, at its own
expense, modify the Software to make derivative works. Except as
explicitly provided below, this License shall apply to any derivative
work as it does to the original Software distributed by Illinois. Any
derivative work should be clearly marked and renamed to notify users
that it is a modified version and not the original Software distributed
by Illinois. Licensee agrees to reproduce the copyright notice and
other proprietary markings on any derivative work and to include in the
documentation of such work the acknowledgment:
"This software includes code 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."
Licensee may redistribute without restriction works with up to 1/2 of
their non-comment source code derived from at most 1/10 of the
non-comment source code developed by Illinois and contained in the
Software, provided that the above directions for notice and
acknowledgment are observed. Any other distribution of the Software
or any derivative work requires a separate license with Illinois.
Licensee may contact Illinois (biocore@ks.uiuc.edu) to negotiate an
appropriate license for such distribution.
3. 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. LICENSEE ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE
RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS.
LICENSEE AGREES THAT UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES WITH RESPECT TO ANY CLAIM BY LICENSEE OR ANY THIRD PARTY ON
ACCOUNT OF OR ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR USE OF OR INABILTIY TO USE
THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS.
4. Licensee understands the Software is proprietary to Illinois.
Licensee agrees to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the
Software is protected and secured from unauthorized disclosure, use, or
release and will treat it with at least the same level of care as
Licensee would use to protect and secure its own proprietary computer
programs and/or information, but using no less than a reasonable
standard of care. Licensee agrees to provide the Software only to any
other person or entity who has registered with Illinois. If licensee is
not registering as an individual but as an institution or corporation
each member of the institution or corporation who has access to or uses
Software must agree to and abide by the terms of this license. If
Licensee becomes aware of any unauthorized licensing, copying or use of
the Software, Licensee shall promptly notify Illinois in writing.
Licensee expressly agrees to use the Software only in the manner and
for the specific uses authorized in this Agreement.
5. By using or copying this Software, Licensee agrees to abide by the
copyright law and all other applicable laws of the U.S. including, but
not limited to, export control laws and the terms of this license.
Illinois shall have the right to terminate this license immediately by
written notice upon Licensee's breach of, or non-compliance with, any
terms of the license. Licensee may be held legally responsible for any
copyright infringement that is caused or encouraged by its failure to
abide by the terms of this license. Upon termination, Licensee agrees
to destroy all copies of the Software in its possession and to verify
such destruction in writing.
6. Licensee agrees that any reports or published results obtained with
the Software 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 utilizes 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/
7. Commercial use of the Software, or derivative works based thereon,
REQUIRES A COMMERCIAL LICENSE. Should Licensee wish to make commercial
use of the Software, Licensee 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
Licensee 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 Licensee.
8. Government Rights. Because substantial governmental funds have been
used in the development of BioCoRE, any possession, use or sublicense
of the Software by or to the United States government shall be subject
to such required restrictions.
9. BioCoRE is being distributed as a research and teaching tool and as
such, TCBG encourages contributions from users of the code that might,
at Illinois' sole discretion, be used or incorporated to make the basic
operating framework of the Software a more stable, flexible, and/or
useful product. Licensees who contribute their code to become an
internal portion of the Software agree that such code may be
distributed by Illinois under the terms of this License and may be
required to sign an "Agreement Regarding Contributory Code for BioCoRE
Software" before Illinois can accept it (contact biocore@ks.uiuc.edu
for a copy).
10. Licensee may not modify, remove or otherwise circumvent sections of
the Software that collect, store, or send user evaluation data back to
Illinois. Licensee may not modify, remove or otherwise circumvent
sections of the Software that deal with the consent form.
11. Licensee will provide a User License for all BioCoRE
users of his/her servers. This User License must contain the
"BioCoRE User License" provided by Illinois.
UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED.
Contact Information:
The best contact path for licensing issues is by e-mail to
biocore@ks.uiuc.edu or send correspondence to:
BioCoRE Team
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
405 North Mathews MC-251
Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
FAX: (217) 244-6078
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