LICENSE

Terms and Conditions for Use of MetaMapLite

Informational Notice:

This software, “MetaMapLite” was developed and funded by the National
Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, and
agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services,
which is making the software available to the public for any
commercial or non-commercial purpose under the following open-source
BSD license.

NOTE: Users of the data distributed with MetaMapLite are
responsible for compliance with the UMLS Metathesaurus License
Agreement which requires you to respect the copyrights of the
constituent vocabularies and to file a brief annual report on your use
of the UMLS. You also must have activated a UMLS Terminology Services
(UTS) account.

LICENSE:

Government Usage Rights Notice: The U.S. Government retains unlimited,
royalty-free usage rights to this software, but not ownership, as
provided by Federal law.

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 this Informational Notice. 
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce this Informational
  Notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the names of the National Library of Medicine, the National
  Institutes of Health, nor the names of any of the software
  developers may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
  this software without specific prior written permission.  The
  U.S. Government retains an unlimited, royalty-free right to use,
  distribute or modify the software.
* Please acknowledge NLM as the source of the MetaMapLite software by
  including the phrase “Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of
  Medicine” or “Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine.”


THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS
IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITEDTO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT

OR CONTRIBUTORS 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.