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ACADEMIC PUBLIC LICENSE for TenCirChem, v1.0
The following license governs the use of TenCirChem in non-commercial academic environments. Commercial use requires a
commercial license ([email protected]).
Copyright (C) 2023 THL A29 Limited, a Tencent company. All rights reserved.
Preamble
This license contains the terms and conditions of using TenCirChem in non-commercial settings: at academic institutions
for teaching and research use, and at not-for-profit research organizations. You will find that this license provides
non-commercial users of TenCirChem with rights that are similar to the well-known GNU General Public License 2.0, yet it
retains the possibility for TenCirChem authors to financially support the development by selling commercial licenses.
In fact, if you intend to use TenCirChem in a "for-profit" environment, where TenCirChem is used to develop or enhance
a product (including commercial or industry-sponsored research at academic institutions), or to use TenCirChem in a
commercial service offering, then you need to obtain a commercial license for TenCirChem. In that case, please contact
[email protected] to inquire about commercial licenses.
What are the rights given to non-commercial users? Similarly, to GPL 2.0, you have the right to use the software, to
distribute copies, to receive source code, to change the software and distribute your modifications or the modified
software. Also, similarly to the GPL 2.0, if you distribute verbatim or modified copies of this software, they must be
distributed under this license.
By modeling the GPL 2.0, this license guarantees that you’re safe when using TenCirChem in your work, for teaching, and
research. This license guarantees that TenCirChem will remain available free of charge for non-profit use. You can
modify TenCirChem to your purposes, and you can also share your modifications. Even in the unlikely case of the authors
abandoning TenCirChem entirely, this license permits anyone to continue developing it from the last release, and to
create further releases under this license.
We believe that the combination of non-commercial open source and commercial licensing will be beneficial for the whole
user community, because income from commercial licenses will enable sustained and faster development and a higher level
of software quality, while further enjoying the informal, open communication and collaboration channels of open source
development.
The precise terms and conditions for using, copying, distribution and modification follow.
Terms and Conditions for Use, Copying, Distribution and Modification
Definitions
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"Work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work
containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language
. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".)
"Using the Program" means any act of creating executables that contain or directly use libraries that are part of the
Program, running any of the tools that are part of the Program, or creating works based on the Program.
Each licensee is addressed as "you".
§1. Permission is hereby granted to use the Program free of charge for any non-commercial purpose, including teaching
and research at universities, colleges and other educational institutions, non-commercial research at organizations that
are either not-for-profit or reinvest all profits in their scientific research, and personal not-for-profit purposes.
For using the Program for commercial purposes, including but not restricted to commercial research at academic
institutions, industrially sponsored research at academic institutions, consulting activities, and design of commercial
hardware or software products or services, you have to contact [email protected] for an appropriate license.
§2. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the source code of the program via any medium, provided that you add
a conspicuous and appropriate copyright notice and a warranty disclaimer to each copy. Retain all notices relating to
this license and the lack of any warranty. Forward a copy of this license to all other recipients of the Program.
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fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk to the quality and performance of the Program is yours. If the
Program turns out to be faulty, you are responsible for the costs for all necessary maintenance, repair or correction
work.
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permitted above be liable for damage, including general, special, accidental or other damage, unless this is required
by law or agreed in writing. The disclaimer also includes consequential damages that result from using the Program
alone or in conjunction with other programs, including but not limited to the loss or corruption of data.
Initially written by Andras Varga (public domain) for OMNeT++ https://omnetpp.org/intro/license,
adapted by THL A29 Limited. The adaptation is licensed under CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication).