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ESO-MIDAS is a copyright protected software product of the European Southern Observatory, and provides general tools for image processing and data reduction

As of the 95NOV release, patch level pl2.0, ESO-MIDAS is available under the GNU General Public License. This means that the ESO-MIDAS system is available, free of charge and can freely redistributed on certain conditions. As a consequence of this distribution policy User Agreements between research institutes and ESO will not apply as of ESO-MIDAS release 95NOVpl2.0 and will not be prolongated when they expire.

A short statement if the GNU General Public License is included in all relevant ESO-MIDAS files and follows below. The full GNU License text is included in the ESO-MIDAS release as separate text file.

Copyright (C) 1995 European Southern Observatory (ESO)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetss Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Corresponding concerning ESO-MIDAS should be addressed as follows:
Internet e-mail: midas@eso.org
Postal address: European Southern Observatory
Data Management Division
Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2
D 85748 Garching bei Müchen
GERMANY