# Terms and Conditions for Use of mmlite

mmlite is a Python port of MetaMapLite. It is released under the same terms as
MetaMapLite itself: the open-source BSD license published by the U.S. National Library of
Medicine, reproduced in full below.

Scope, so the provenance is unambiguous:

* MetaMapLite was developed and funded by the National Library of Medicine. The Informational
  Notice and LICENSE below are NLM's, and are reproduced verbatim from the MetaMapLite
  distribution (see NOTICE-MetaMapLite.md). They apply to MetaMapLite and to the portions of
  this software derived from it — algorithms, data tables, field layouts and output formats.
* mmlite itself was not developed, funded, endorsed or reviewed by the National Library
  of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, or the U.S. Government. Copyright in the
  Python code written for this port is held by its contributors, who release it under these
  same terms.
* The UMLS Metathesaurus data this software indexes is licensed separately by NLM and is not
  covered by this license. See the note in the Informational Notice below.

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# Informational Notice:

This software, “MetaMapLite” was developed and funded by the National
Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, and
agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services,
which is making the software available to the public for any
commercial or non-commercial purpose under the following open-source
BSD license.

NOTE: Users of the data distributed with MetaMapLite are
responsible for compliance with the UMLS Metathesaurus License
Agreement which requires you to respect the copyrights of the
constituent vocabularies and to file a brief annual report on your use
of the UMLS. You also must have activated a UMLS Terminology Services
(UTS) account.

# LICENSE:

Government Usage Rights Notice: The U.S. Government retains unlimited,
royalty-free usage rights to this software, but not ownership, as
provided by Federal law.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain this Informational Notice.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce this Informational
  Notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the names of the National Library of Medicine, the National
  Institutes of Health, nor the names of any of the software
  developers may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
  this software without specific prior written permission.  The
  U.S. Government retains an unlimited, royalty-free right to use,
  distribute or modify the software.
* Please acknowledge NLM as the source of the MetaMapLite software by
  including the phrase “Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of
  Medicine” or “Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine.”


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U.S. GOVERNMENT

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