License.txt

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                  OpenMS -- Open-Source Mass Spectrometry
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Copyright The OpenMS Team -- Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen,
ETH Zurich, and Freie Universitaet Berlin 2002-2016.

This software is released under a three-clause BSD license:
 * 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 name of any author or any participating institution
   may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
   without specific prior written permission.
For a full list of authors, refer to the file AUTHORS.
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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 ANY OF THE AUTHORS OR THE CONTRIBUTING
INSTITUTIONS 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.

The source code of OpenMS is available via our homepage http://www.OpenMS.de

OpenMS depends on third party libraries which are listed below.
The source code of these libraries is available from their website or can be 
obtained via a "contrib" package, which specifically configures these libraries
for OpenMS and is available on our website.

The respective license files for the contrib libraries can be found 
in the "contrib" package root directory or online (see below).

libSVM
  - URL: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/
  - License available at http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/COPYRIGHT
	
GLPK
  - URL: http://www.gnu.org/s/glpk/
  - License available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Qt 4
  - URL: http://qt.nokia.com/
  - License available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt 

Xerces-C
  - URL: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/index.html
  - License available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

Boost (headers)
  - URL: http://www.boost.org/
  - License available at http://www.boost.org/more/license_info.html
  
ZLib
  - URL: http://www.zlib.net
  - License available at http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html
  
BZ2Lib
  - URL: http://www.bzip.org/
  - License.bzip2.txt 

Search engines:
 
OMSSA
  - URL: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omssa/
  - License: Public Domain

X!Tandem:
  - URL and source code: http://www.thegpm.org/tandem/
  - License available at: http://www.perlfoundation.org/attachment/legal/artistic-2_0.txt

MyriMatch:
  - URL and source code: http://fenchurch.mc.vanderbilt.edu/software.php
  - License available at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt

MSGF+:
  - URL and source code: http://proteomics.ucsd.edu/Software/MSGFPlus/ 
  - License available at: http://sourceforge.net/p/open-ms/code/HEAD/tree/THIRDPARTY/All/MSGFPlus/LICENSE.txt

Fido:
  - URL and source code: https://noble.gs.washington.edu/proj/fido/
  - License available at: https://gist.github.com/hendrikweisser/2d10eb8bf1e370e6dfbb