Here is what you can and can't (legally) do with Ingeneue.These copyright notices and restrictions are intended to make sure that Ingeneue and the ideas embedded within Ingeneue will continue to remain freely available to the scientific community. They are also intended to give enough credit to the authors that funding agencies will look favorably on our future development of the program. All references to "us" and "we" refer to George von Dassow, Eli Meir, Edwin Munro, and Garrett Odell. You can contact the authors through the website www.ingeneue.org, or at contact@ingeneue.org.

Ingeneue is ©Copyright 2000 by George von Dassow, Eli Meir, Edwin Munro, and Garrett Odell. We are distributing both the program and the code under the free GNU software license, which can be seen here. What this says, in a nutshell, is that anyone can do anything they want with either the program or the code as long as they don't restrict anyone else from doing the same. In addition, we are adding the following two conditions to that license.

a) If you have easy access to an internet connection, you must register on the ingeneue.org website (this is so we can tell funding agencies how many people are using Ingeneue and thus continue receiving funding).

b) You should site one of the following paper by the above authors in any published work which makes use of Ingeneue:

von Dassow, G., E. Meir, E. Munro, G. M. Odell. 2000. The segment polarity network is a robust developmental module. Nature 406: 188 - 92.

and/or

Meir, E., G. von Dassow, E. Munro, G. M. Odell. 2002. Ingeneue: a versatile tool for reconstituting genetic networks in silico. J. Experimental Zoology, in press.

Thanks for respecting these conditions.

The authors
www.ingeneue.org
contact@ingeneue.org