As of the 95NOV release,patch level 2.0, ESO-MIDAS is available under the GNU General Public License. This means that the ESO-MIDAS system is available free of charge and can be freely redistributed on certain conditions. As a consequence of this distribution policy User Agreements between research institutes and ESO will not apply as of ESO-MIDAS release 95NOVpl2.0 and will not be prolongated when they expire.
A short statement if the GNU General Public License as included in all relevant ESO-MIDAS files and follows below. The full GNU License text is included in the ESO-MIDAS release as separate text file.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetss Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Correspondence concerning ESO-MIDAS should be addressed as follows:
Internet e-mail: midas@eso.org Postal address: European Southern Observatory Data Management Division - User Support Group Karl-Schwarzschild-Stra_e 2 D 85748 Garching bei Munchen GERMANY