The files in these directories are covered by a mixture of compatible BSD style opensource licences. In summary all this code should be free of GPL issues and is freely available to do with as you wish. Most code is copyright Medical Research council and is made available under this licence: /* * Copyright (c) Medical Research Council 1994. All rights reserved. * * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that * this copyright and notice appears in all copies. * * This file was written by James Bonfield, Simon Dear, Rodger Staden, * as part of the Staden Package at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular * Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, United Kingdom. * * MRC disclaims all warranties with regard to this software. */ Later MRC made the entire Staden Package open source under the 3-clause BSD licence. This copyright message is also included, although it is compatible with the above one. Newer files and changes are copyright Genome Research Ltd using the following compatible BSD licence. Disentangling which is which is somewhat tricky, but it's sufficient to say that work in the CVS/SVN tree from August 2002 will be bound by the GRL licence instead. The GRL licence will have author(s) listed too. Note that these are not the sole authors of the files, but the authors for whom the GRL licence applies. /* * Copyright (c), Genome Research Ltd (GRL). * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * * * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above * copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following * disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials * provided with the distribution. * * * Neither the name of the Genome Research Limited nor the * names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote * products derived from this software without specific prior * written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GRL ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL GRL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, * INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES * (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR * SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, * STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED * OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */