All components included with the G12 system are distributed under the "ACADEMIC-USE Only Software License" below, with the exception of Melbourne Mercury distribution (see below) and some third-party components. License information for such third-party components is in the file THIRD_PARTY. License files (COPYING and COPYING.LIB) for the Mercury distribution may be found in the mercury subdirectory. ============================================================================== ACADEMIC-USE ONLY Software License This G12 system ('Licensed Material') is made available to the scientific community for non-commercial research purposes such as academic research, teaching, scientific publications or personal experimentation. Permission is granted by National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA) to you (the 'Licensee') to use, copy and distribute the Licensed Material in accordance with the following terms and conditions: 1. Licensee must include the name and version number of the software and a reference to National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA) in any published work that makes use of the Licensed Material. 2. If Licensee alters the content of the Licensed Material or creates any derivative work, Licensee must include in the altered Licensed Material or derivative work prominent notices to ensure that any recipients know that they are not receiving the original Licensed Material. 3. Licensee may not use or distribute the Licensed Material or any derivative work for commercial purposes including but not limited to, licensing or selling the Licensed Material or using the Licensed Material for commercial gain. 4. The Licensed Material is provided 'AS IS', without any express or implied warranties. NICTA does not accept any responsibility for errors or omissions in the Licensed Material. 5. This original license notice must be retained in all copies or derivatives of the Licensed Material. 6. All rights not expressly granted to the Licensee are reserved by NICTA. ============================================================================== The Mercury implementation is free software, but it is Copyright (C) 1993-2010 The University of Melbourne. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for copying permission. The Mercury library and runtime (libmer_std.* and libmer_rt.*) are distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying permissions for those files. The distribution also contains a slightly modified copy of version 7.2 alpha 4 of the conservative garbage collector distributed by Hans Boehm: Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies. Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was modified is included with the above copyright notice. ==============================================================================