By using this software, you agree to abide by the terms of this license agreement. EMTOOL is freeware, it is not in the public domain. Except as outlined in this agreement, all rights are retained by the author. Emtool may be used and redistributed without modification, free of any licensing fees. You may not, under any circumstances, use emtool in any location where a warrantee would be required by law (see below). No charge may be made for emtool or distribution of emtool without explicit permission of the author. Emtool may not be included as part of any commercial software package or compilation without explicit permission of the author. The software may be modified for personal use, so long as such modifications are not distributed to others without permission. You are requested, but not required to send any useful modifications to the author for inclusion in future releases of the program. Portions of the source may be reused in other projects, providing no charge is made for any project including any portion of the emtool source, i.e. - such projects must be strictly noncommercial. Any exceptions to this policy require written permission from the author.
Emtool is provided as a free service to the scientific community. As such, it is provided with absolutely no warrantee, not even the implicit warrantee of fitness for a given purpose. By using this software you agree to assume responsibility for any and all damages caused directly or indirectly by such use. Neither the author of the program or Baylor College of Medicine are responsible for any damages, direct, indirect or otherwise caused by the use of this software. If any such warrantee is required by law in the location where you intend to use the software, permission to use the software in said location is revoked. In no event will the author or the author's institution bear any financial responsibility for the use or misuse of this software. In other words, if a bug in emtool costs you a month of time and effort, that's your problem, not ours.
The author may be reached at:
sludtke@bcm.tmc.edu
stevel@alumni.caltech.edu
http://ncmi.bcm.tmc.edu/~stevel