BLAST - open source parallel BLAST Source code and other files distributed with mpiBLAST are copyright (c) 2002-2005 by Aaron Darling of Los Alamos National Laboratory for the Regents of the University of California. Numerous authors have contributed to mpiBLAST and are listed in the included AUTHORS file. License: Copyright 2002-2005. The Regents of the University of California. This material was produced under U.S. Government contract W-7405-ENG-36 for Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. The Government is granted for itself and other acting on its behalf a paid-up, non-exclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in the material to reproduce, prepare derivative works, and perform publicly and display publicly. Beginning five (5) years after November 6, 2002, subject to additional five-year worldwide renewals, the Government is granted for itself and others acting on its behalf a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in this material to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, perform publicly and display publicly, and to permit others to do so. NEITHER THE UNITED STATES NOR THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, NOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, NOR ANY OF THEIR EMPLOYEES, MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OR ASSUMES ANY LEGAL LIABLITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT, OR PROCESS DISCLOSED, OR REPRESENTS THAT ITS USE WOULD NOT INFRINGE PRIVATELY OWNED RIGHTS. Additionally, this program is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version. Accordingly, this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------ You may contact the primary author (Aaron E. Darling) via email at darling@cs.wisc.edu, or via postal mail at 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, 53706. See the file 'COPYING' for the details of the GNU General Public License Some portions of mpiBLAST are derivitive works of the NCBI Toolbox. In particular, src/blast_hooks.c and src/mpiblast_formatdb.c are derivitive of blastall.c and formatdb.c from the NCBI Toolbox. As such, they remain under the NCBI public domain license given at the beginning of those files. |