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                             FMindex  COPYRIGHT
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The FM-index was developed by Paolo Ferragina (Dipartimento di Informatica,
Universita' di Pisa, Email ferragina@di.unipi.it) and Giovanni Manzini
(Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Email
manzini@mfn.unipmn.it)


Permission is granted to copy this software, to redistribute it
on a nonprofit basis, and to use it for any purpose, subject to
the following restrictions and understandings. 

1. Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice in full.

2. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this software shall
duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual standards of
acknowledging credit in academic research.

3. The authors have made no warranty or representation that the operation of
this software will be error-free or suitable for any application, and they are
under under no obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance,
update, or otherwise.  The software is an experimental prototype offered on an
as-is basis.

4. The use and redistribution of this software is allowed only for research
and teaching purpuses. Any other use requires the express, written permission
of the authors.
 
