DL_POLY_4 Software (Commercial Use)

This package is not free to industrial users! Commercial organisations interested in acquiring the package should approach Dr Ilian Todorov at Daresbury Laboratory in the first instance. Daresbury Laboratory is the sole centre for distribution of the package!

DL_POLY_4 Software (Academic Use)

To obtain the current version of DL_POLY_4 you must complete an on-line registration form which is accessed below. The software is provided under the terms of a licence which may be viewed on this page. You are advised to read the licence before proceeding to registration.

When you complete a Registration Form for the DL_POLY_4 Software and submit it to STFC, your institution (in the Registration Form and the Licence Agreement called "the Licensee") is entering into a contract with The Science & Technology Facilities Council, as part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation ("UKRI"), ("STFC") on the terms set out in the Licence Agreement below.

By submitting the Registration Form to STFC, you are confirming that:

• the institution whose name appears as the Licensee in the Registration Form agrees to the terms of the Licence Agreement;
  
  
• you have authority to agree to the terms of the Licence Agreement and to enter into a contract with STFC on behalf of that institution;
  
  
• the DL_POLY_4 Software will be used only for Academic Purposes (as defined in the Licence Agreement);
  
  
• you will acknowledge the use of DL_POLY_4 when publishing any data obtained with its assistance by including the following reference: "I.T. Todorov, W. Smith, K. Trachenko & M.T. Dove, J. Mater. Chem., 16, 1911-1918 (2006)";
  
  
• the information given on the Registration Form is true; and
  
  
• you agree to your personal data being used for the purpose of managing your institution's licence of the DL_POLY_4 Software, including contacting you to tell you about changes to and error corrections for that software and generally about the software.

Please read the terms of the Licence Agreement carefully. If you do not agree to them, you should not submit the Registration Form.

A contract between the Licensee and STFC will come into existence when you click on the SUBMIT button at the end of the Registration Form.

STFC is a Non-Departmental Public Body. Its address for this agreement is the Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick Lane, Warrington, WA4 4AD, Cheshire, United Kingdom and its VAT number is GB 618 3673 25.

If you wish to contact STFC about the Licence Agreement or the DL_POLY_4 Software, please e-mail Dr Ilian Todorov.

LICENCE AGREEMENT PLEASE READ THE LICENCE BELOW, COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION INFORMATION, AND ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THE LICENCE IN ORDER TO DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE. BY CLICKING "ACCEPT" AND DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE CONFIRMING YOUR INTENTION TO ENTER INTO A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT GOVERNED BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT BELOW (THE "AGREEMENT"). IN THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS YOU ARE REFERRED TO AS THE "LICENSEE". 1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 1.1 In this Licence Agreement the following expressions have the meanings set opposite: Academic Purposes fundamental or basic research or academic teaching, including any fundamental research that is funded by any public or charitable body, but not any purpose that generates revenue (as opposed to grant income) for the Licensee or any third party. Any research that is wholly or partially sponsored by any profit making organisation or that is carried out for the benefit of any profit-making organisation is not an Academic Purpose; a Derived Work any modification of, or enhancement or improvement to, any of the DL_POLY_4 Software and any software or other work developed or derived from any of the DL_POLY_4 Software; the DL_POLY_4 Software the release and version of the DL_POLY_4 Software downloaded by the Licensee from the DL_POLY_4 Website immediately after the Licensee agrees to the terms and conditions of this Licence Agreement; the DL_POLY_4 Website the website with the URL http://www.ccp5.ac.uk/DL_POLY/ , and any website that from time to time replaces that website; a Harmful Element any virus, worm, time bomb, time lock, drop dead device, trap and access code or anything else that might disrupt, disable, harm or impede the operation of any information system, or that might corrupt, damage, destroy or render inaccessible any software, data or file on, or that may allow any unauthorised person to gain access to, any information system or any software, data or file on it; Intellectual Property patents, trade marks, service marks, registered designs, copyrights, database rights, design rights, know-how, confidential information, applications for any of the above, and any similar right recognised from time to time in any jurisdiction, together with all rights of action in relation to the infringement of any of the above; the Licence Period the period beginning when the Licensee agrees to the terms and conditions of this Licence Agreement and downloads the DL_POLY_4 Software from the DL_POLY_4 Website and ending on the termination of this Licence Agreement under clause 5.2. 2. LICENCE 2.1 STFC grants the Licensee an indefinite, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty free licence to use, copy, modify, and enhance the DL_POLY_4 Software during the Licence Period on the terms and conditions of this Licence Agreement provided that: 2.1.1 the Licensee may not distribute any of the DL_POLY_4 Software or any Derived Work to any third party, or share their use with any third party (whether free of charge or otherwise), and the Licensee may not sub-license the use of any of the DL_POLY_4 Software to any third party unless, in each case, that third party has complied with clause 2.3 below; 2.1.2 the Licensee may not use the DL_POLY_4 Software on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any third party (including, without limitation, using it to provide bureau, outsourcing or application services or facilities management services) party unless that third party has complied with clause 2.3 below; and 2.1.3 the DL_POLY_4 Software and any Derived Work may be used by the Licensee and its employees and registered students for Academic Purposes only. 2.2 If the Licensee wishes to use the DL_POLY_4 Software or any Derived Work in any way except for Academic Purposes, or wishes to distribute or make the DL_POLY_4 Software or any Derived Work available to any third party for non-Academic Purposes, it must obtain a commercial licence from STFC. STFC may refuse to grant the Licensee a commercial licence. If STFC agrees to grant a commercial licence, that licence will be on such terms and conditions as STFC sees fit. 2.3 If the Licensee wishes to carry out any collaboration for Academic Purposes with any third party and that third party needs to use the DL_POLY_4 Software in connection with that collaboration, or if the Licensee wishes to make the DL_POLY_4 Software available on-line to any third party for Academic Purposes, the Licensee must direct that third party to the DL_POLY_4 Website. That third party may use the DL_POLY_4 Software and any Derived Work (whether obtained from STFC or from the Licensee) only if it has completed the registration process on the DL_POLY_4 Website and agreed to the terms and conditions of the Licence Agreement for the use of the DL_POLY_4 Software for Academic Purposes that then appear on the DL_POLY_4 Website. 2.4 This Licence Agreement allows the Licensee to use only the release or version of the DL_POLY_4 Software downloaded by the Licensee from the DL_POLY_4 Website immediately after the Licensee agrees to the terms and conditions of this Licence Agreement; the Licensee must acquire a new licence for any future release or version of the DL_POLY_4 Software that it wishes to use. 2.5 The Licensee will not tamper with, or remove, any copyright or other proprietary notice or any disclaimer that appears on or in any part of the DL_POLY_4 Software, and will reproduce the same in all copies of any of the DL_POLY_4 Software and in all Derived Works. 2.6 The Licensee may not itself distribute any Derived Work. If the Licensee would like any Derived Work made by or for the Licensee, or by any of its employees or students, based on any of the DL_POLY_4 Software to be considered for wider distribution, it should notify STFC of such Derived Work and provide STFC with a copy of that Derived Work (in source code) (a "Contribution"). In providing STFC with such a Contribution the Licensee grants STFC an irrevocable, indefinite licence to make that Contribution available to any third party on such terms and conditions as STFC may from time to time decide. The Licensee warrants that it owns (or has the necessary rights to) such Contribution to give effect to this clause. 3. WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY 3.1 The DL_ POLY Software is provided for Academic Purposes free of charge. Therefore, STFC gives no warranty and makes no representation in relation to the DL_POLY_4 Software or any assistance or advice that STFC may give in connection with the DL_POLY_4 Software. The Licensee will indemnify STFC against any and all claims arising as a result of the Licensee having made any of the DL_POLY_4 Software or any Derived Work available to any third party. 3.2 Before using any of the DL_POLY_4 Software, the Licensee will check that the DL_POLY_4 Software does not contain any Harmful Element. STFC does not warrant that the DL_POLY_4 Software will run without interruption or be error free, or be free from any Harmful Element. STFC is not obliged to provide any support or error correction service, assistance or advice in relation to the DL_POLY_4 Software, but the Licensee may access any error corrections and on-line assistance that STFC chooses to make available on the DL_POLY_4 Website from time to time. If STFC does provide that sort of service, assistance or advice, subject to clause 3.7, STFC will not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by the Licensee as a result. 3.3 STFC will not be liable to the Licensee to the extent that any loss or damage is caused: by the Licensee's failure to implement, or the Licensee's delay in implementing, any correction or advice in in relation to the DL_POLY_4 Software that STFC has made available on the DL_POLY_4 Website; or by the Licensee's failure to acquire a licence of and to implement any new release or version of the DL_POLY_4 Software that would have remedied or mitigated the effects of any error, defect, bug or deficiency in the DL_POLY_4 Software. 3.4 The Licensee acknowledges that proper use of the DL_POLY_4 Software and any Derived Work is dependent on the Licensee, its employees and students exercising proper skill and care in inputting data and interpreting the output provided by the DL_POLY_4 Software or that Derived Work. STFC will not be liable for the consequences of decisions taken by the Licensee or any other person on the basis of that output. STFC does not accept any responsibility for any use which may be made by the Licensee of that output, nor for any reliance which may be placed on that output, nor for advice or information given in connection with that output. 3.5 Subject to clause 3.7, STFC's liability or any breach of this Licence Agreement, any negligence or arising in any other way out of the subject matter of this Licence Agreement or the use of the DL_POLY_4 Software, will not extend to any incidental or consequential damages or losses, or any loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of data, loss of contracts or opportunity, whether direct or indirect, even if the Licensee has advised STFC of the possibility of those losses arising or if they were or are within STFC's contemplation. 3.6 Subject to clause 3.7, the aggregate liability of STFC for any and all breaches of this Licence Agreement, any negligence or arising in any other way out of the subject matter of this Licence Agreement or the use of the DL_POLY_4 Software will not exceed in total £5,000. 3.7 Nothing in this Licence Agreement limits or excludes STFC's liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for any fraud, or for any sort of liability that, by law, cannot be limited or excluded. 3.8 The express undertakings and given by STFC in this Licence Agreement and the terms of this Licence Agreement are in lieu of all warranties, conditions, terms, undertakings and obligations on the part of STFC, whether express or implied by statute, common law, custom, trade usage, course of dealing or in any other way. All of these are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. 4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4.1 Nothing in this Licence Agreement assigns or transfers any Intellectual Property Rights in any of the DL_POLY_4 Software. Those rights are reserved to STFC. 4.2 The Licensee will ensure that, if any of its employees or students publishes any article or other material resulting from, or relating to, a project or work undertaken with the assistance of any part of the DL_POLY_4 Software, that publication will contain the following acknowledgement: "DL_POLY_4 is a molecular dynamics simulation package written by I.T. Todorov and W. Smith, and has been obtained from STFC's Daresbury Laboratory via the website http://www.ccp5.ac.uk/DL_POLY" and cite the following reference: "I.T. Todorov, W. Smith, K. Trachenko& M.T. Dove, `J. Mater. Chem.', 16, 1911-1918 (2006)". 5. TERMINATION 5.1 This Licence Agreement will take effect and the Licence Period will start when the Licensee has agreed to the terms and conditions of this Licence Agreement and downloaded the DL_POLY_4 Software from the DL_POLY_4 Website. 5.2 This Licence Agreement will terminate immediately and automatically if: 5.2.1 the Licensee is in breach of this Licence Agreement; or 5.2.2 the Licensee becomes insolvent, or if an order is made or a resolution is passed for its winding up (except voluntarily for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or if an administrator, administrative receiver or receiver is appointed over the whole or any part of its assets, or if it makes any arrangement with its creditors. 5.3 The Licensee's right to use the DL_POLY_4 Software will cease immediately on the termination of this Licence Agreement, and the Licensee will destroy all copies of the DL_POLY_4 Software that it or any of its employees or students then holds. 5.4 Clauses 1, 2.2, 3, 4, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 and 6 will survive the expiry of the Licence Period and the termination of this Licence Agreement, and will continue indefinitely. 5.5 STFC may stop providing any assistance or advice in relation to, or any corrections, new releases or versions of the DL_POLY_4, and may stop updating or publishing the DL_POLY_4 Website at any time. 6. GENERAL 6.1 Headings: The headings in this Licence Agreement are for ease of reference only; they do not affect its construction or interpretation. 6.2 Assignment etc: The Licensee may not assign or transfer this Licence Agreement as a whole, or any of its rights or obligations under it, without first obtaining the written consent of STFC. 6.3 Illegal/unenforceable provisions: If the whole or any part of any provision of this Licence Agreement is void or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Licence Agreement, and the rest of the void or unenforceable provision, will continue in force in that jurisdiction, and the validity and enforceability of that provision in any other jurisdiction will not be affected. 6.4 Waiver of rights: If STFC fails to enforce, or delays in enforcing, an obligation of the Licensee, or fails to exercise, or delays in exercising, a right under this Licence Agreement, that failure or delay will not affect its right to enforce that obligation or constitute a waiver of that right. Any waiver by STFC of any provision of this Licence Agreement will not, unless expressly stated to the contrary, constitute a waiver of that provision on a future occasion. 6.5 Entire agreement: This Licence Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties relating to its subject matter. The Licensee acknowledges that it has not entered into this Licence Agreement on the basis of any warranty, representation, statement, agreement or undertaking except those expressly set out in this Licence Agreement. The Licensee waives any claim for breach of, or any right to rescind this Licence Agreement in respect of, any representation which is not an express provision of this Licence Agreement. However, this clause does not exclude any liability which STFC may have to the Licensee (or any right which the Licensee may have to rescind this Licence Agreement) in respect of any fraudulent misrepresentation or fraudulent concealment before the signing of this Licence Agreement. 6.6 Amendments: No variation of, or amendment to, this Licence Agreement will be effective unless it is made in writing and signed by each party's representative. 6.7 Third parties: No one who is not a party to this Licence Agreement has any right to prevent the amendment of this Licence Agreement or its termination, and no one except a party to this Licence Agreement may enforce any benefit conferred by this Licence Agreement, unless this Licence Agreement expressly provides otherwise. 6.8 Governing law: This Licence Agreement is governed by, and is to be construed in accordance with, English law. The English Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of or in connection with this Licence Agreement, except that STFC may bring proceedings against the Licensee or for an injunction in any jurisdiction.  

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