VIRTUAL RETINA: large-scale simulations of biologically-plausible retinas
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Software license agreement
Software VIRTUAL RETINA ©Inria – 2009, all rights reserved, hereinafter “the Software”.
This software has been developed by researchers of BIOVISION team of Inria (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique).
Inria, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt – BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, FRANCE
Inria holds all the ownership rights on the Software.
The Software has been registered with the Agence pour la Protection des Programmes (APP) under IDDN.FR.001.210034.000.S.P.2007.000.31235.
It is the Inria’s aim for the Software to be used by the scientific community so as to test it and, evaluate it so that Inria may improve it.
For these reasons Inria has decided to distribute the Software.
Inria grants to the academic user, a free of charge, without right to sublicense non-exclusive right to use the Software for research purposes for a period of one (1) year from the date of the download of the code. Any other use without of prior consent of Inria is prohibited.
The academic user explicitly acknowledges having received from Inria all information allowing him to appreciate the adequacy between of the Software and his needs and to undertake all necessary precautions for his execution and use.
The Software is provided as binary code or as source code on request.
THE USER CANNOT USE, EXPLOIT OR COMMERCIALY DISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT PRIOR AND EXPLICIT CONSENT OF INRIA (stip-sam@inria.fr). ANY SUCH ACTION WILL CONSTITUTE A FORGERY.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY NATURE AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,WITH REGARDS TO COMMERCIAL USE, PROFESSIONNAL USE, LEGAL OR NOT, OR OTHER, OR COMMERCIALISATION OR ADAPTATION.
UNLESS EXPLICITLY PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT, SHALL INRIA OR THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
If your results were obtained using our software, you have to cite our paper:
VIRTUAL RETINA: A biological retina model and simulator, with contrast gain control, A. Wohrer and P. Kornprobst, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 26(2):219, 2009
