4.1. Ninf-G

NaReGI Public License Version 1.0, November 15, 2003

Copyright 2003 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and National Institute of Informatics, All rights reserved.

Permission is granted for the installation, use, reproduction, modification, display, performance and redistribution of this software referred to as "Ninf-G" ("Software") and its documentation ("Documentation"), with or without modification, in source and binary forms. Any exercise of rights under this license is subject to the following conditions:

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2. The Documentation, alone or if included with a redistribution of the Software, must include the following notice: "This product includes material developed by the National Research Grid Initiative Project (http://www.naregi.org/)

Alternatively, if that is where third-party acknowledgments normally appear, this acknowledgment must be reproduced in the Software itself.

3. The name of the copyright holders must not be used to endorse or promote software, or products derived from this Software or Documentation without specific prior written permission.

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