OpenMS is released under a 3 clause BSD license.

The respective license file can be found in the LICENSE file

The source code of OpenMS is available via our homepage http://www.OpenMS.de

OpenMS depends on third party libraries which are listed below.

The source code of these libraries is available from their website or can be

obtained via a "contrib" package, which specifically configures these libraries

for OpenMS and is available on our website.

The respective license files for the contrib libraries can be found

in the "contrib" package root directory or online (see below).

libSVM

- URL: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/

- License available at http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/COPYRIGHT

GLPK

- URL: http://www.gnu.org/s/glpk/

- License available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Qt 4

- URL: http://qt.nokia.com/

- License available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt

Xerces-C

- URL: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/index.html

- License available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

Boost (headers)

- URL: http://www.boost.org/

- License available at http://www.boost.org/more/license_info.html

ZLib

- URL: http://www.zlib.net

- License available at http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html

BZ2Lib

- URL: http://www.bzip.org/

- License.bzip2.txt

Search engines:

OMSSA

- URL: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omssa/

- License: Public Domain

X!Tandem:

- URL and source code: http://www.thegpm.org/tandem/

- License available at: http://www.perlfoundation.org/attachment/legal/artistic-2_0.txt

MyriMatch:

- URL and source code: http://fenchurch.mc.vanderbilt.edu/software.php

- License available at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt