legal

Note: We are planning on moving future releases of UBCSAT to a GPL license.

FRIENDLY VERSION:

For academic puposes, you may use the software as you wish

We respectfully request that you notify us if you:

  * modify / improve upon the software

  * re-distribute the software

If you use UBCSAT in your research, we would appreciate a citation in your publication(s).

(this is a very verbose bibtex entry -- feel free to abbreviate)

@inproceedings {ubcsat,

  author =        "Dave A. D. Tompkins and Holger H. Hoos",

  title =         "{UBCSAT}: An Implementation and Experimentation Environment for {SLS} Algorithms for {SAT} and {MAX-SAT}",

  booktitle =     "Revised Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing ({SAT 2004})",

  pages =         "306--320",

  year =          "2005",

  editor =        "Holger Hoos and David Mitchell",

  series =        "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",

  volume =        "3542",

  publisher =     "Springer Berlin / Heidelberg",

  doi =           "10.1007/11527695_24",

  isbn =          "978-3-540-27829-0"

}

If you wish to use this software for commercial applications, obtain the prior

permission of Dr. Holger hoos (hoos@cs.ubc.ca).

Thanks, and enjoy.

-The UBCSAT Team

LEGAL VERSION:

Copyright (c) 2003.  The University of British Columbia

Under no circumstances shall this software and associated documenation

(the "Software") be used in a commercial endeavour without the prior 

expressed permission of Dr. Holger Hoos (hoos@cs.ubc.ca) or another designated

faculty member of The University of British Columbia.

Excluding the above provision, permission is hereby granted, free of charge,

to any person obtaining a copy of the Software, to deal in the Software for 

non-commercial applicaitons without restriction, including without limitation

the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and to permit 

persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following

conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 

all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 

AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS 

IN THE SOFTWARE.