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10 PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE
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13 This software was created as part of the author(s) official duties as a United
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14 States Government employee(s), is a "United States Government Work" and is not
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15 subject to copyright in the United States (17 USC 105). The National Library of
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16 Medicine (NLM) and the U.S. Government have not placed any restriction on its
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17 use or reproduction.
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19 The NLM disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of
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20 performance, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose.
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22 Please cite NLM in any work or product based on this material.
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24 EGAPx makes use of various third-party tools which carry their own licenses.
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26 The list of third-party tools and their licenses are provided here:
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28 EXCEPTIONS (in all cases excluding NCBI-written makefiles):
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31 Location: img/gp/third-party/STAR
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32 Authors: Alexander Dobin
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33 License: MIT License
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37 Authors: Genome Research Ltd.
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52 Authors: Wei Shen
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62 Q. Our product makes use of the NCBI source code, and we did changes
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63 and additions to that version of the NCBI code to better fit it to
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64 our needs. Can we copyright the code, and how?
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66 A. You can copyright only the *changes* or the *additions* you made to the
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67 NCBI source code. You should identify unambiguously those sections of
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68 the code that were modified, e.g. by commenting any changes you made
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69 in the code you distribute. Therefore, your license has to make clear
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70 to users that your product is a combination of code that is public domain
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71 within the U.S. (but may be subject to copyright by the U.S. in foreign
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72 countries) and code that has been created or modified by you.
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78 A. No, you cannot license or relicense the source code written by NCBI
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79 since you cannot claim any copyright in the software that was developed
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80 at NCBI as a 'government work' and consequently is in the public domain
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86 applicable to my particular case?
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88 A. Contact us. Send your questions to 'toolbox@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov'.