LICENSE.txt

GraspIt!
Copyright (C) 2002-2007, Columbia University in the City of New York.
All rights reserved.

Where noted, program files are covered by the license
below.  Several other software packages and source files
have been included in this distribution and, according to their
own licenses, are either free for all uses or free for 
non-commercial use.  Please see PQP-VCOLLIDE/*, qhull/*, and
src/maxdet_src.cpp for information on those packages.


                RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL USE LICENSE

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