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EdGCM Software License for Educational and Research Use

This Agreement is the expression of covenants between the User 
("Licensee"), and Columbia University in the City of New York 
("Columbia"), regarding current and future versions of software produced 
by the EdGCM Cooperative. License includes all programs, code, examples, 
manuals and other documentation included in the release (collectively, 
"the Software").

1. Licensee agrees that the Software and the Derivatives will be used 
solely for non-commercial research or educational purposes. Licensee 
is not permitted to sell, lease, distribute, transfer, sublicense, or 
otherwise dispose of the Software and the Derivatives, in whole or in 
part, for any form of actual or potential commercial gain or 
consideration;

2. Copyright of the Software is and will remain with The Trustees of 
Columbia University in the City of New York and/or its employees, 
consultants and students, and shall at no point transfer to Licensee. 
Any copyright notices on the Software shall be included on all copies 
of the Derivatives, or any parts or portions thereof, in any form, 
manner or substance, which are produced by the Licensee including but 
not limited to incorporation of the Software into any other program, 
technical data, documentation, firmware, or other information of the 
like kind, type or quality;

3. Any externally disseminated publications such as, but not limited 
to, manuals, technical reports, articles in journals, papers in 
conference or workshop proceedings, and marketing brochures or 
advertisements for sale or distribution of products, written in whole 
or in part by Licensee personnel, including but not limited to 
employees, consultants or students of Licensee, that are based in any 
part on the ideas of the Programming Systems Lab or the Software 
shall acknowledge Mark Chandler and the EdGCM Cooperative at Columbia 
University, with citations to their published literature when 
appropriate;

4. Licensee acknowledges that the Software is being supplied in an as 
is condition without any support services or future updates or 
releases. Columbia may or may not make future updates and releases 
available to Licensee under this same or another licensing agreement, 
but Columbia is in no way obligated to do so. If Licensee discovers 
any defects or limitations in the Software,

5. Columbia makes no guarantees, warranties or representations of any 
kind, either express or implied. Furthermore, Columbia disclaims and 
Licensee waives and excludes any and all warranties of 
merchantability and any and all warranties of fitness for any 
particular purpose. Licensee agrees that neither Columbia nor its 
future, current or former personnel, including but not limited to 
employees, consultants and students, shall be held to any liability 
with respect to any claim by Licensee or a third party arising from 
or on account of the use of the Software or the Derivatives, 
regardless of the form of action; whether in contract or tort, 
including negligence. In no event will Columbia be liable for 
consequential or incidental damages of any nature whatsoever;

6. Licensee will guarantee that all actual or potential users of the 
Software, and all actual or potential producers of the Derivatives, 
within Licensee organization, or in organizations who have obtained 
or may obtain the Software or the Derivatives from Licensee, are 
aware of this agreement and of the terms for using the Software and 
producing Derivatives.