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-GROMACS is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License.
-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.
+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