SVM-Light
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Available at http://svmlight.joachims.org/

Author: Thorsten Joachims
	thorsten@joachims.org

	Cornell University
	Department of Computer Science
	4153 Upson Hall
	Ithaca, NY 14853
	USA

LICENSING TERMS 

This program is granted free of charge for research and education
purposes. However you must obtain a license from the author to use it
for commercial purposes.

Scientific results produced using the software provided shall
acknowledge the use of SVM-Light. Please cite as  

       T. Joachims, Making large-Scale SVM Learning
       Practical. Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector
       Learning, B. Schölkopf and C. Burges and A. Smola (ed.),
       MIT-Press, 1999. 
       http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/DOKUMENTE/joachims_99a.pdf

Moreover shall the author of SVM-Light be informed about the
publication.

The software must not be modified and distributed without prior
permission of the author.

By using SVM-Light you agree to the licensing terms.


NO WARRANTY 

BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT
WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER
PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

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