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Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Bioinformatics Institute. All rights reserved.

By using this software the USER indicates that he or she has read, understood and will comply with the following:
Bioinformatics Institute hereby grants USER permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee, provided that a full copy of this notice is included with the software and its documentation. Neither the software nor its documentation, nor portions thereof, may be sold for profit. Any commercial sale or license of this software, copies of the software, its associated documentation and/or modifications of either is strictly prohibited without the prior consent of Bioinformatics Institute.

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LIBICS
This library is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (formerly the GNU Library Public License). This means you can use it for whatever purpose, commercial or not, open or not. However, if you re-distribute the sources in any form whatsoever you need to include the original copyright statement. And if you change anything you need to mention this too.

    This also means that none of the people involved in this project can be held responsible for anything that goes wrong while you use this software. You use it at your own risk.


OPENCV
This library is released under a BSD license, it is free for both academic and commercial use.


Qt 4.6
Qt cross-platform user interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the open source LGPL version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009.

VTK
This library is an open-source toolkit licensed under the BSD license.

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  • Neither name of Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, or Bill Lorensen nor the names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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