
USER LICENSE for the software suite BANKSY

TLDR (see below for details). 
Academic usage: MIT License
Commercial Usage: Restrictions applicable, see below. 

Authorship and Copyright (c) 
2022; Vipul Singhal, Joseph Lee

References of associated scientific publications
1) Singhal, V., Chou, N., Lee, J. et al. BANKSY unifies cell typing and tissue domain segmentation for scalable spatial omics data analysis. Nat Genet 56, 431–441 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01664-3

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Vipul Singhal
vipul_singhal@gis.a-star.edu.sg
Genome Institute of Singapore, 60 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138672

Joseph Lee
joseph.lee@u.nus.edu
Genome Institute of Singapore, 60 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138672

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License conditions

1. Definitions

“Author” refers to the person(s) that hold the authors’ rights or to an organization that has been entitled by them or their employer during the work on the software suite to protect the respective rights and to issue user licenses. 

“Software” includes all program or database files as well as associated documentation files together with this license document. 

This license refers to the software suite in the title of this document with all its author’s versions. This includes the newest one and any preceding version - be it in “source code form” (the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it) or “object form” (any compiled/executable version of it). This license covers both the whole software as well as any part of it. It is applicable to the standalone versions of this software as well as its incorporation as integral part into other software packages. 

“User” is the licensee of this software. 

2. Copyright notice

All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the software is concerned. The software may not be used or distributed without specific, prior written permission of the author beyond the exceptions described in this license. 

This especially concerns respecting the authors’ rights. The user will always refer to the authors, their publications and this software package when communicating about this software, any of its modifications or about results obtained with this software. 

The copyright messages (if any) will not be modified or suppressed. The software package will always remain associated with this license agreement.

3. Academic (non-commercial) usage: MIT License

Copyright (c) <2022> <Vipul Singhal, Joseph Lee>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in 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:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

4. Commercial usage

The usage of this software in commercial activities is not allowed without a prior written commercial licence agreement issued by the author. 

Any software package that contains this software or parts of it can only be commercialized with a license agreement issued by the author. 

5. Warranty and liability

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 AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ANY OTHER DEALINGS WITH IT, WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. 
