License
License
GeNIe, SMILE, its wrappers (such as jSMILE and SMILE.NET), and any other software offered on
our web site are made available on an "as is" basis. We have performed tests of
the software and we are using it in all our projects, but we are not providing any
guarantees as to its correct working and take no responsibility for effects of
possible errors. We do appreciate suggestions and bug reports and will do our best
within our capabilities to correct errors and accommodate users' needs in our future
development plans.
GeNIe, SMILE, its wrappers (such as jSMILE and SMILE.NET), and any other software offered on
our web site, whether in compiled form or source code, are made available free of charge
for any use (this permission includes explicitly potential commercial use).
Even though we are making them available to the community, the programs and all accompanying
graphics and manuals are copyrighted by the Decision Systems Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh
and cannot be copied or distributed without our explicit permission. The only legal way
of obtaining the programs is directly from the Decision Systems Laboratory. We require
that interested individuals visit our web site for the most recent
copy of the programs. This ensures the quality and completeness of the programs and
accompanying manuals. It also allows us to keep track of who is using the programs and to
notify the users about possible errors and new releases.
We support teachers interested in using GeNIe in other schools and departments and maintain
shareware resources, such as network repositories, that are useful in teaching. Our software
has also proven useful in research projects and commercial applications. To get credit for
our work, we ask that all publications of research in which our software was used contain
an explicit acknowledgment to that effect. Examples of simple acknowledgments are below:
"The models described in this paper were created using the GeNIe modeling environment
developed by the Decision Systems Laboratory of the University of Pittsburgh and
available at http://genie.sis.pitt.edu/."
"The core of our implementation is based on the SMILE reasoning engine for graphical
probabilistic model contributed to the community by the Decision Systems Laboratory,
University of Pittsburgh and available at http://genie.sis.pitt.edu/."
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