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- LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR
- THE PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SOFTWARE PACKAGE
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- The software enclosed with the book "Explorations in Parallel Distributed
- Processing: A Handbook of Models, Programs and Exercises" constitutes the
- Parallel Distributed Processing software package.
-
- Copyright 1987 by James L. McClelland and David E. Rumelhart.
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- The rights to market and distribute Version 1.0 of this package in con-
- junction with the handbook have been licensed to MIT Press. All other
- rights to market or distribute the source and/or object code contained in
- this package, or any part or modification thereof, or any of the ancillary
- computer files included in this package, are reserved.
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- CONDITIONS OF LICENSE. MIT Press licenses this software under the fol-
- lowing terms:
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- 1) The licensee may use this software and modified or extended versions
- thereof, and may make copies of the source and object code to support this
- use, provided a) that any reports or publications arising from such uses
- acknowledge the source of the software and refer to the Handbook; b) that
- the licensee acknowledges and accepts the disclaimers given below; and c)
- that the licensee agrees to refrain from marketing or distributing for
- profit any portion of the software or any modification or extension
- thereof.
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- 2) The licensee may make modifications and extensions of the software, as
- long as a) all versions of the source files used for such purposes still
- retain the original copyright notice; b) the computer-readable version of
- this license agreement in the file license.txt is kept in the same direc-
- tory with these source files; and c) each executable program created from
- such modification or extension displays the original copyright notice each
- time it is run.
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- This license is granted to the purchasing individual or institution, and
- to all individuals who are given access to the software by the purchaser
- or purchasing institution. The software may also be used and adapted in
- accordance with these terms for any purpose of the United States govern-
- ment.
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- WARRANTY ON DISKETTES. MIT Press warrants to the original purchaser
- only that the diskettes on which the PDP software is supplied are free
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- DISCLAIMERS. The programs have been carefully tested, but they are
- provided without any warranty other than that stated above. There is no
- warranty that the programs will produce mathematically correct results or
- that they are free from errors. No warranties are made concerning the con-
- ditions under which the source code can be recompiled. Neither MIT Press
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- between the user's computer system and the IBM-PC or MS-DOS operating sys-
- tem versions 2.0 through 3.2 under which the programs were developed.
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