Licenses ================================= The default chemfp license is the :ref:`Base License Agreement `. This permits you to use for chemfp for a wide range of research, except you may not use it to: * generate FPB files; * create in-memory fingerprint arenas with more than 50,000 fingerprints; * search in-memory fingerprint arenas with more than 50,000 fingerprints, unless they are :ref:`licensed FPB ` files as described below; * perform Tversky searches; * perform Tanimoto searches of FPS files with more than 20 queries at a time. The pre-compiled chemfp distributions require a time-based license key to enable these features. Academics may request a license key for the binary distribution at no cost, under the terms of the `academic license `_, or purchase a soure code license. A source code license includes access to the chemfp source code, with no built-in license manager and no time limit on use. Source code licenses for commercial in-house use are also available. See ``_ for details. If you have questions, or wish to request a demo license or purchase a license, send an email to `sales@dalkescientific.com `_. .. _base_license: Base License Agreement --------------------------------------------- .. code-block:: none Chemfp Base License Agreement v1.2 4 February 2021 This is the default License Agreement for chemfp, a high-performance similarity search tool for cheminformatics fingerprints. It applies to anyone who has a copy of a pre-compiled chemfp distribution and who did not purchase or otherwise acquire an alternate License Agreement from Andrew Dalke Scientific AB ("Dalke Scientific") or its authorized redistributors. This License Agreement, which covers the chemfp source code, is neither open source nor free software. It is a proprietary License Agreement for software made available to you at no cost. 1. Reservation of Rights and Ownership Chemfp is licensed, not sold. Dalke Scientific, its affiliates and suppliers own and retain all right, title and interest in and to chemfp, including all copyrights, patents, trade secret rights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights therein, except as explicitly described below or explicitly covered under another License Agreement as stated in the relevant part of the source code. The chemfp distribution is protected by Swedish copyright laws and other intellectual property laws and international treaty provisions. You may make copies for internal use of chemfp, including for use on third-party hardware such as cloud providers, so long as the users of chemfp are internal to your organization (i.e. employees, contractors, interns, agents, and other persons under your control and direction). You may not distribute modified copies of chemfp, in whole or in part, to any third party, nor may you rent, sublicense, or lease, with or without consideration, chemfp to third parties. You further may not use chemfp to act as a service bureau or application service provider or use chemfp for commercial software hosting services. In addition, you may not publish chemfp for others to use it in any way that is against the law. 2. Other License Restrictions and Grants If you develop software for internal use then you may use any chemfp functionality, except that you may not use chemfp to: - generate FPB files; - create in-memory fingerprint arenas with more than 50,000 fingerprints; - search in-memory fingerprint arenas with more than 50,000 fingerprints, unless they are licensed FPB files as described below; - perform Tversky searches; - perform Tanimoto searches of FPS files with more than 20 queries at a time. In the interest of clarity, you are explicitly permitted to use chemfp’s "toolkit" API implementations, fingerprint type API implementations, and "bitops" functions. You may modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble chemfp. However, you may not do so for the purpose of circumventing the license key system or circumventing any of the terms and restrictions of this license or any other provision of law. (Look, I know the license key is not hard to break - it’s there to keep honest people honest.) Modifications must not remove relevant copyright statements and license information. Within the restrictions given above, you may use chemfp to validate the accuracy of your fingerprint generation and search software, including in the development of for-profit and commercial applications which may be a direct competitor to chemfp. Within the restrictions given above, you may use chemfp to generate fingerprint data sets in FPS format for any internal use, and to generate fingerprint data sets published at no cost for general public download. Within the restrictions given above, you may use chemfp for in-memory Tanimoto searches of licensed FPB files that contain over 50,000 fingerprints. 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Other copyright holders are: - Kim Walisch, (several popcount implementations, under the MIT license) - Python Software Foundation (the ascii_buffer_converter, the heap functions, and more, under the Python license) - Christopher Swenson, Vojtech Fried, Google Inc. et al. (the sort code in sort.h, under the MIT license) - Daniel Lemire, Nathan Kurz, Owen Kaser, et al. (the AVX2 popcount implementation, under the Apache 2 license) - Rational Discovery LLC, Greg Landrum, and Julie Penzotti (the MACCS pattern definitions in rdmaccs.patterns and rdmaccs2.patterns) - Sebastiano Vigna (the xoshiro256** PRNG, contributed to the public domain via the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication) - David Eppstein (the double to rational approximation function, under the MIT license) - Casper da Costa-Luis, Google Inc., and Noam Yorav-Raphael (the vendored version of tqdm under the Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) v. 2.0 and MIT license. See LICENSE in chemfp/_tqdm/__init__.py .) - Thomas Smith (the vendored version of prettyspecialmethods.py used to generate the documentation, under the MIT license) .. _fpb_license: Licensed FPB files --------------------------------------------- The `FPB file format `_ is documented at ``_. Anyone may use or create an FPB file, with no need to ask for a license or receive any other permission. A "licensed FPB file" is an FPB file which contains an embedded chemfp license key which unlock features otherwise restricted by chemfp's license manager. Licensed datasets are available for download from ``_. Currently these are the fingerprints from `ChEMBL 27 `_, `ChEMBL 28 `_, and `ChEMBL 29 `_. These FPB files are gzip-compressed to reduce size. After downloading one of the files you should uncompress it using something like the following: gunzip chembl_29.fpb.gz (While chemfp can read gzip-compressed FPB files, it is much faster to load an uncompressed file.) The ChEMBL data sets allow redistribution like this so long as the redistribution includes the required notice, attribution, and license. These are stored in "TEXT" blocks in the FPB file. Use the :ref:`chemfp fpb_text ` command to display that information: .. code-block:: console % chemfp fpb_text chembl_28.fpb Notice ====== The original work, chembl_28.fps.gz , was converted to FPB format and augmented with the requested legal information and a chemfp FPB license key. .... additional lines removed ... Attribution =========== The data in ChEMBL is covered by the licence in the file LICENSE. Under the -BY clause, we request attribution for subsequent use of ChEMBL. .... additional lines removed ... License ======= Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported .... additional lines removed ...