Policy Agreement


The FMD code is being developed under the CCM-4 CHSSI effort of the DOD High Performance Computing Program. This effort supports the Computational Chemistry and Materials Science (CCM) computational technology area. A partial list of Participants in the effort include: Dr. Ruth Pachter, Dr. James A. Lupo, Dr. Alan M. Mckenney, Dr. Soumya Patnaik and Dr. Zhiqiang Wang (AFRL/MLPJ); Dr. Mark Gordon (Iowa State University); Dr. Lennart Johnsson (University of Houston); Dr. Sarm Krimm (University of Michigan); Dr. Betsy Rice and William Mattson (ARL); and Dr. Greg Voth (University of Utah).

FMD is derived, in part, from the source code of the NAMD program, and is redistributed under the modification and redistribution terms of the NAMD license agreement. The NAMD license agreement states:

Copyright (C) 1995-96 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved.

NOTICE: The program NAMD is *not* in the public domain. However, it is freely available without fee for education, research, and non-profit purposes. By obtaining copies of this and other files that comprise the NAMD program, you, the Licensee, agree to abide by the following conditions and understandings with respect to the copyrighted software:

  1. The software is copyrighted in the name of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (UI), and ownership of the software remains with the UI.
  2. Permission to use and modify this software and its documentation is hereby granted to Licensee. In addition, permission to copy this work and any derived works is granted to Licensee, provided that
    1. the copyright notice and this permission notice appear on all such copies,
    2. that proper credit be given by citing:

      M. Nelson, W. Humphrey, A. Gursoy, A. Dalke, L. Kale, R. Skeel and K. Schulten, Intl. J. Supercomput. Applics. High Performance Computing, Vol 10, #4, pp.251-268, 1996.

    3. that no charge be made for such copies,
    4. that programs derived from NAMD be given a different name.
  3. Some of the code and executables used by NAMD may have different restrictions.
  4. Licensee may not use the name, logo, or any other symbol of the UI nor the names of any of its employees nor any adaptation thereof in advertizing or publicity pertaining to the software without specific prior written approval of the UI.
  5. THE UI MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE SOFTWARE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY.
  6. The UI shall not be liable for any damages suffered by Licensee from the use of this software.

The fast fourier transform routines, comprising the source code contained in the FFT subdirectory, are from the double precision version of FFTPack as distributed via Netlib. It is apparently Version 4, dated 1985, as authored by Paul N. Swarztrauber of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. No restrictions were found in the the Netlib distributions of either the single or double precision versions.

This should be considered a working document, and as such should be associated with the specific version of FMD it is released with. It need not describe depricated features in previous versions, nor correctly describe those in future versions. The information contained within represents only part of the overall FMD effort. It has been adapted, in part, from the documentation released with NAMD 1.4.


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