Digital Universe & Partiview Licenses

Digital Universe License

This License is a legal agreement between you (the “User”) and the American Museum of Natural History (“AMNH”) regarding AMNH's Digital Universe Atlas (the “Atlas”).

Downloading the Atlas

AMNH offers the Atlas free of charge via our website, http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/. The User is free to download and/or duplicate verbatim copies of the Atlas provided this license and copyright information accompany the Atlas.

Modifying the Atlas

The user is free to modify the Atlas by either adding data or altering existing data, provided it is for personal use only. Once the user modifies the Atlas, it is no longer part of AMNH's Atlas and cannot be used publicly alongside or within the Atlas without written permission from AMNH.

Distributing the Atlas

The user is forbidden to distribute and use the Atlas for profit, as part of a software and/or production system that will subsequently be redistributed, or for public consumption (via print, electronic media, or broadcast/produced pieces) without written permission from AMNH.

Neither the names of AMNH and Hayden Planetarium nor the names of their contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Atlas without specific, prior written permission.

The Atlas is free but is offered WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind. We provide the Atlas “as is” and take no responsibility for any damage resulting from the use of this Atlas. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this product is with the user.

Partiview License

Terms and conditions for the use and distribution of the data viewer, Partiview, are in the Illinois Open Source License below.

Developed by:

Stuart Levy, NCSA Virtual Director Group
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
http://niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu/partiview/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the names of NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.

This is an instance of the Illinois Open Source License, as certified by the Open Source Initiative in March 2002. See: http://www.otm.uiuc.edu/faculty/forms/opensource.asp