Terms and Conditions for Use of Semantic Knowledge Representation (SKR) Resources
1 Introduction
The following Terms and Conditions apply to the use of SKR resources. Using any SKR resource indicates the users' acceptance of the following Terms and Conditions, which apply to all SemRep and SemRep Tools components independent of format and method of acquisition.
2. Availability
SKR resources are available to all applicants at no charge, both within and outside the United States.3. Use of SKR resources
Redistributions of SKR resources in source or binary form must include the following list of conditions in the documentation and other materials provided with the distribution.
In any publication or distribution of all or any portion of the SKR resources: (1) the user must attribute the source of the tools as SemRep and SemRep Tools with the release number and date; (2) the user must clearly annotate within the source code any modification made to SemRep and SemRep Tools; and (3) any subsequent distribution of the program, tools, or material based on SemRep and SemRep Tools, must be accomplished within the context of an open source set of terms and conditions such as the GNU General License.
Bugs, questions, and/or issues relating to an SKR resource should be directed to the most recent in the chain of entities that may have modified and re-distributed this code.
Users shall not assert any proprietary rights to any portion of an SKR resource, nor represent it or any part thereof to anyone as other than a United States Government product.
The name of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, and Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications may not be used to endorse or promote any products derived from an SKR resource without specific prior written permission.
Neither the United States Government, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine, the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, nor any of their agencies, contractors, subcontractors, or employees make any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to the SKR resources, and furthermore, they assume no liability for any party's use, or the results of such use, of any part of these tools.
These Terms and Conditions are in effect as long as the user retains any part of the SKR resources.
