Copyright for clustalx source package in Lenny

This package was debianized by Andreas Tille  on
Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:16:53 +0200

It was downloaded from:

       ftp://ftp-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/ClustalX/  and
       ftp://ftp-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/ClustalW/

while the source was merged to one common upstream source (see README.Debian)

Authors: 
Toby Gibson 
Julie Thompson 
Des Higgins 

Copyright:

Non-free. You cannot distribute it at will.

Debian holds a special exemption for distributing (see below). The licence does
not forbid Debian from using autobuilders to create binary packages.

Licence included here:

**********************
LICENCE FOR CLUSTAL W
**********************

Clustal W (hereafter "the program") is copyright (c) 1994-1998 by Julie D.
Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins and Toby J. Gibson.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and use the program provided no fee
is charged for it and provided that this copyright and licence notice is not
removed or altered.

The full source code of the program is provided free. You should not
distribute a modified version of the program without obtaining the permission
of the authors. You must keep the original copyright and licence notice. You
must also document clearly the modifications you have made. You must make
clear that this is not the original version.

Commercial distributors of Clustal W are requested to contact the Clustal W
authors in order to take out a non-exclusive licence. See the README file
included with Clustal W for a rationale.

You should understand that this software is provided as-is. The authors make
no claims towards its suitability for any purpose and accept absolutely no
liability for any damages the program may cause. Use at your own risk.

* End of licence



Special authorization for Debian:



From: "Toby Gibson" 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:37:02 +0100
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer 
Subject: Re: Fwd: clustalw_1.7-4_i386.changes REJECTED

Hi Stephane,

Now that we have thought about it, I don't think we can meet your stricter free
criterion. There are already several companies who bundle Clustal W in sequence
analysis packages and so are effectively selling it. They have paid for
non-exclusive licences even though anyone can get the program for free: but
they must have a multiple alignment engine, so we might as well earn some money
which we can put toward further development.

I think the main thing is to allow the distribution at all by Debian. We seem
to have reached this point.

Please do include this licence in the Debian package and I hope the release can
go smoothly from now on.