Software Copyrights and Licenses

MorphAdorner License

The MorphAdorner client and server source code and data files fall under the following NCSA style license. Some of the incorporated code and data fall under different licenses as noted in the section third-party licenses below.

Copyright © 2006-2013 by Northwestern University. All rights reserved.

Developed by:
Academic and Research Technologies
Northwestern University
http://www.it.northwestern.edu/about/departments/at/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the names of Academic and Research Technologies, Northwestern University, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.

Also please see the section on support.

Third-party Licenses

1. Apache Ant
   Copyright © 2000-2013 The Apache Software Foundation.
   Licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0. For complete license information, please see Apache Ant license.
2. Apache Commons
   Copyright © 2000-2013 The Apache Software Foundation.
   Licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0. For complete license information, please see Apache Ant license.
3. Apache Ivy
   Copyright © 2007-2013 The Apache Software Foundation.
   Licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.
4. Apache Log4J
   Copyright © 1999 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
   Licensed under the Apache Software License 1.1. For complete license information, please see Apache Log4j license.
5. Apache Xerces2 Java Parser
   Copyright © 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
   Licensed under the Apache Software License 1.1. For complete license information, please see Apache Xerces2 Java Parser license..
6. Arithmetic Utilities from Visual Numerics
   Copyright © 1997 - 1998 by Visual Numerics, Inc.
   All rights reserved.
   Some methods in the ArithUtils class written by Visual Numerics are covered by a BSD-like license. For complete license information, please see Visual Numerics license.
7. Cybozu Labs Language Detector
   Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Cybozu Labs, Inc.
   All rights reserved.
   The Cybozu Labs language detector is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0. The version of the code used in MorphAdorner includes the original code base by Nakatani Shuyo, with modifications by Robert M. Theis as well as local Northwestern University modifications.
8. Double Metaphone
   Written by Ed Parrish.
   Licensed under an Apache license.
9. GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering)
   Copyright © The University of Sheffield 2001-2008.
   Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. This applies to the Hepple Tagger as well.
10. International Components for Unicode (ICU4J)
    Copyright © International Business Machines Corporation and others.
    Licensed under the ICU license.
11. ISO Relax
    Copyright © 2001-2002 SourceForge ISO-RELAX Project.
    All rights reserved.
    Licensed under a BSD style license. For complete license information, please see ISO RELAX license..
12. ISO Relax JAXP Bridge
    Copyright © 2001-2002 SourceForge ISO-RELAX Project.
    All rights reserved.
    Licensed under a BSD style license. For complete license information, please see ISO RELAX license..
13. Jackson JSON processing
    Copyright © 2007-2013 by Tatu Saloranta.
    All rights reserved.
    Licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.
14. jargs command line parser
    Copyright © 2001-2003 Steve Purcell.
    Copyright © 2002 Vidar Holen.
    Copyright © 2002 Michal Ceresna.
    Copyright © 2005 Ewan Mellor.
    
    The jargs command line parser library is available under a BSD-style license. For complete license information, please see jargs license.
15. Jaro-Winckler String Similarity
    Copyright (c) 2003 Carnegie Mellon University.
    The Jaro-Winckler code comes from the SecondString project and is licensed under an NCSA-style license. For complete license information, please see Jaro-Winckler license.
16. Java API for WordNet Searching 1.1
    Copyright (c) 2007 by Brett Spell.
    JAWS is available under a BSD style license. For complete license information, please see JAWS license.
17. JDOM
    Copyright © 2000-2004 Jason Hunter & Brett McLaughlin.
    All rights reserved.
    JDOM is available under an Apache-style open source license, with the acknowledgment clause removed. For complete license information, please see JDOM license.
18. Jettison
    Copyright 2006 Envoi Solutions LLC.
    Licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.
19. JlinkGrammar
    JLinkGrammar is licensed under a BSD-like license (although early references also suggested it could be licensed under the GNU General Public license).
20. JSONIC
    Licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.
21. JUnit
    JUnit is licensed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0.
22. Lancaster Stemmer
    The Lancaster stemmer implementation in WordHoard is based upon Java code written by Christopher O'Neill and Rob Hooper. The original code was obtained from The Lancaster Stemming Algorithm web site. The following licensing information was provided by Dr. Chris Paice.
    
    Paice/Husk Stemmer - License Statement.
    
    This software was designed and developed at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, under the supervision of Dr Chris Paice. It is fully in the public domain, and may be used or adapted by any organisation or individual. Neither Dr Paice nor Lancaster University accepts any responsibility whatsoever for its use by other parties, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic.
    
    It is assumed that, as a matter of professional courtesy, anyone who incorporates this software into a system of their own, whether for commercial or research purposes, will acknowledge the source of the code.
23. Longest Common Subsequence
    Copyright © 2005 Neil Jones.
    All rights reserved.
    The longest common subsequence code is provided AS-IS. You may use this code in any way you see fit, EXCEPT as the answer to a homework problem or as part of a term project in which you were expected to arrive at this code yourself.
24. Mersenne Twister
    Liberal use license contained in the source file. For complete license information, please see Mersenne twister license.
25. Pluralizer
    Original pluralizer was code written by Tom White and licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.
26. Sun Multischema Validator (MSV)
    Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    All rights reserved.
    Licensed under a BSD style license. For complete license information, please see Sun MSV license..
27. Porter Stemmer
    Martin Porter's home page says "All these encodings of the algorithm can be used free of charge for any purpose." For complete license information, please see Martin Porter's home page at http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/.
28. Restlet
    Of the several available licenses for Restlet, we selected the Apache Software License 2.0.
29. SAX
    The SAX processors are in the public domain.
30. Simple web server
    Simple is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0.
31. Text Corpus Format (TCFXB)
    Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
32. TeXHyphenator-J
    Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
33. Text Segmentation
    The C99 and Text Tiling algorithms are based upon implementations written by Freddy Choi. Use of this code is free for academic, education, research and other non-profit making uses only.
34. XGTagger
    Licensed under the CeCILL license. For complete license information, please see CeCILL license.
35. XStream
    Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Joe Walnes
    Copyright (c) 2006-2009, 2011 XStream Committers
    All rights reserved.
    
    Licensed under a BSD style license. For complete license information, please see the XStream license.