

                              Gepasi 3
               (Bio)chemical Kinetics Simulation Software

Copyright (C) Pedro Mendes 1989, 1992, 1993, 1996-1999. All Rights Reserved.
Portions of the code are Copyright (C) 1985-1995 Microsoft Corporation. The
associated program "gnuplot" is Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 1999 Thomas 
Williams, Colin Kelley and many others.


                          GEPASI 3 END USER
                          LICENSE AGREEMENT

GRANT. Pedro Mendes (Author) hereby grants to you (User) a non-exclusive
license to use Gepasi 3 (Software) and accompanying documentation on the
terms below.

The User may: use the Software on any computer; make an unlimited number
of copies of the Software for personal use; redistribute the Software
provided this is done solely by transfer of unmodified copies of the
files gep3xxi.zip or gep3xxa.zip (where x are numerals between 0 and
9) or the distribution floppy disks, no money is charged for it, it is
not included as a part of any commercial package, or used or distributed
in support of a commercial service without prior express written
permission from the Author. 

In addition the user may publish texts that include or comment results 
obtained with the Software but only if these results or comments are 
accompanied by a reference to the articles describing the Software 
((a) Mendes, P. (1993) GEPASI: a software package for modelling the
dynamics, steady states and control of biochemical and other systems.
Comput. Appl. Biosci. 9, 563-571; (b) Mendes, P. (1997) Biochemistry by
numbers: simulation of biochemical pathways with Gepasi 3. Trends
Biochem. Sci. 22, 361-363; (c) Mendes P. & Kell D.B. (1998) Non-linear
optimization of biochemical pathways: applications to metabolic 
engineering and parameter estimation. Bioinformatics 14, 869-883)

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under the terms listed above; translate, reverse engineer, decompile,
disassemble the Software; rent or lease the Software; or remove any
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