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LicenseThe Windsurf LibraryCopyright (c) 2009 DEIS - Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Italy Description of the Library: Windsurf is a Java library having the goal of providing a general framework for the efficient processing of content-based image retrieval queries. In particular, the library primarily focuses on region-based retrieval and has the ability to encompass different querying models. Such flexibility is provided by a number of different facets, i.e., templates that can be appropriately instantiated in order to realize the particular retrieval model needed by the user. The download of Windsurf Library implies that you have read and totally accepted all the terms of the following license and agree to become a licensee of the Windsurf Library. The present license covers past, present and future releases of the Windsurf Library. Access to future releases (if any) is automatically granted by this license and future releases shall be made available on the Windsurf website (http://www-db.disi.unibo.it/Windsurf). Terms of LicenseStatement of copyright and ownershipThe Windsurf Library ("the Library") is the property of DEIS and bears DEIS copyright. Any use you make of the Library must respect DEIS proprietary rights. Restrictions on commercial use of the LibraryThe Windsurf Library and all linking documentation is released under the Q Public License version 1.0 (or "QPL") listed in full text below integrated by the following specific provisions which form integral part of the license. In addition to the terms imposed by the QPL, the Copyright's owner requires that all the rights granted by the QPL are granted for your own use only, for education and research purposes only, with the exclusion of any use or distribution for direct or indirect commercial purposes, included for monetary reward by means of sale, resale, loan, transfer, hire or other form of commercial exploitation. On request, however, we are able to grant a differently licensed version of the Library that does not contain the restrictions said above. For this purpose, please, contact the Copyright's owners at the following e-mail address. You will be requested to grant a contribution to the Copyright's owners useful for continuing developing the library and funding further research on topics related to the Library itself. e-mail: deis.windsurf@unibo.it Restriction on general use of the Library
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