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+GROMACS is free software, distributed under the GNU Lesser General
+Public License, version 2.1 However, scientific software is a little
+special compared to most other programs. Both you, we, and all other
+GROMACS users depend on the quality of the code, and when we find bugs
+(every piece of software has them) it is crucial that we can correct
+it and say that it was fixed in version X of the file or package
+release. For the same reason, it is important that you can reproduce
+other people's result from a certain GROMACS version.
The easiest way to avoid this kind of problems is to get your modifications
included in the main distribution. We'll be happy to consider any decent
Sander Pronk, Szilárd Páll, Roland Schulz, Per Larsson, Pär Bjelkmar,
Rossen Apostolov, Michael R. Shirts, Jeremy C. Smith, Peter M. Kasson,
David van der Spoel, Berk Hess, Erik Lindahl.
- Bioinformatics (2013)
+ Bioinformatics 29 (2013) pp. 845-54
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt055
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Good luck with your simulations!