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                  **** Copyright and disclaimers ****
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All  trademarks  and software  directly or  indirectly referred in this
document,  are  copyrighted  from  legal owners.  VEGA  is  a  freeware
program  and can  be spread  through  Internet, BBS,  CD-ROM and  other
electronic formats.The Authors of this program accept no responsibility
for  hardware/software damages  resulting from the use of this package.
No   warranty   is  made   about  the   software  or  its  performance.

This software includes code [SODIUM by Alexander Balaeff], developed by
the Theoretical Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for  Advanced
Science and  Technology  at  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-
Champaign.

Use  and copying  of this  software and  the preparation  of derivative
works  based  on this software are  permitted, so long as the following
conditions are met:

-  The copyright  notice and this entire notice are included intact and
prominently carried on all copies and supporting documentation.

-  No  fees or compensation  are charged for  use, copies, or access to
this  software. You  may  charge  a nominal  distribution  fee for  the
physical  act  of transferring a  copy, but you  may not charge for the
program itself.

- If  you  want  include  the  VEGA  package  into  a  commercial  file
collection, you must send a written request. The Authors can accept  or
deny the request on their own decision.

-  If you  change the  source code  to improve  the VEGA  performances,
please  contact  the Authors to  add your modifications in the official
package.

-  Any work  distributed or published that in whole or in part contains
or  is a derivative  of this software or any part thereof is subject to
the  terms of  this  agreement. The  aggregation  of another  unrelated
program  with this software or its derivative on a volume of storage or
distribution  medium  does not bring  the other program under the scope
of these terms.


                                 VEGA
                 is a software developed in 1996-2003
                by Alessandro Pedretti & Giulio Vistoli
                         All rights reserved.

                          Alessandro Pedretti
           Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica
                         Universit di Milano
                           Viale Abruzzi, 42
                        I-20131 Milano - Italy
                         Tel. +39 02 503 17522
                         Fax. +39 02 503 17565
                 E-Mail: alessandro.pedretti@unimi.it
                    WWW: http://www.ddl.unimi.it
