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If you are seeking a commercial license to popupCAD, please contact the Office 
of Technology Development at Harvard University to discuss licensing options 
through Harvard’s licensee.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR DOWNLOADING POPUPCAD:
Please visit http://www.popupcad.org for all download information

This Software may be used with the following:
* PySide, Qt4 
* numpy 
* pyqtgraph 
* scipy 
* shapely 
* sympy 
* poly2tri 
* pyyaml, yaml  
* pytriangle, triangle
The licenses for each may be found in ./licenses

Please direct any questions to: 
	Daniel M., Aukes, (danaukes<at>seas.harvard.edu)
	Robert J. Wood, (rjwood<at>eecs.harvard.edu)
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                                  popupCAD
          Academic, Non-Commercial Research Use and Personal Use 
                       Software License and Terms of Use

popupCAD is a software package which facilitates the development of laminate 
devices, popup mechanisms, and flat foldable structures.  The Software is 
designed to provide a foundation for common  mathematical operations, with 
many higher-level plugins available for automating the design process, 
analyzing manufacturability, and generating the structures used to fabricate 
such devices.

The Software was developed by Daniel M. Aukes at Harvard University. Using the 
Software indicates your agreement to be bound by the terms of this Software 
Use Agreement (“Agreement”). Absent your agreement to the terms below, you 
(the “End User”) have no rights to hold or use the Software whatsoever. 

Harvard agrees to grant hereunder the limited non-exclusive license to End 
User for the use of the Software in the performance of End User’s internal, 
non-commercial research and academic use or personal use at End User’s 
academic or not-for-profit research institution (“Institution”) on the 
following terms and conditions: 

1. NO REDISTRIBUTION. The Software remains the property of Harvard, and except 
as set forth in Section 4, End User shall not publish, distribute, or 
otherwise transfer or make available the Software to any other party.

2. NO COMMERCIAL USE. End User shall not use the Software for commercial 
purposes and any such use of the Software is expressly prohibited. This 
includes, but is not limited to, use of the Software in fee-for-service 
arrangements, core facilities or laboratories or to provide research services 
to (or in collaboration with) third parties for a fee, and in industry-
sponsored collaborative research projects where any commercial rights are 
granted to the sponsor. If End User wishes to use the Software for commercial 
purposes or for any other restricted purpose, End User must execute a separate 
license agreement with Harvard.  

Requests for use of the Software for commercial purposes, please contact: 
	Office of Technology Development
	Harvard University
	Smith Campus Center, Suite 727E
	1350 Massachusetts Avenue
	Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
	Telephone: (617) 495-3067
	Facsimile: (617) 495-9568
	E-mail: otd@harvard.edu

3. OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE. Harvard owns all intellectual property in 
the Software. End User shall gain no ownership to the Software. End User shall 
not remove or delete and shall retain in the Software, in any modifications to 
Software and in any Derivative Works, the copyright, trademark, or other 
notices pertaining to Software as provided with the Software.

4. DERIVATIVE WORKS. End User may create and use Derivative Works, as such 
term is defined under U.S. copyright laws, provided that any such Derivative 
Works shall be restricted to non-commercial, internal research and academic 
use or personal use at End User’s Institution. End User may distribute 
Derivative Works to other Institutions solely for the performance of non-
commercial, internal research and academic use or personal use on terms 
substantially similar to this License and Terms of Use.

5. NON ASSERT. End User acknowledges that Harvard may develop modifications to 
the Software that may be based on the feedback provided by End Users. Harvard 
shall not be restricted in any way by End User regarding their use of such 
information.  End User acknowledges the right of Harvard to prepare, publish, 
display, reproduce, transmit and or use modifications to the Software that may 
be substantially similar or functionally equivalent to End User’s 
modifications and/or improvements if any.  In the event that End User obtains 
patent protection for any modification or improvement to Software, End User 
agrees not to allege or enjoin infringement of End User’s patent against 
Harvard, or any of the researchers, medical or research staff, officers, 
directors and employees of those institutions.

6. PUBLICATION & ATTRIBUTION. End User has the right to publish, present, or 
share results from the use of the Software.  In accordance with customary 
academic practice, End User will acknowledge Harvard as the providers of the 
Software and may cite the relevant reference(s) from the following list of 
publications: 

	Aukes, D. M., Goldberg, B., Cutkosky, M. R., & Wood, R. J. (2014). An 
	Analytic Framework for Developing Inherently-Manufacturable Pop-up 
	Laminate Devices. Smart Materials and Structures.(to appear)

	Aukes, D. M., & Wood, R. J. (2014). Algorithms for Rapid Development of 
	Inherently-Manufacturable Laminate Devices. In ASME Conference on Smart 
	Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. Newport, RI, USA.
	(to appear)

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation 
(grant numbers EFRI-1240383 and CCF-1138967) and the Wyss Institute for 
Biologically Inspired Engineering. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or 
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not 
necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

7. NO WARRANTIES. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS." TO THE FULLEST EXTENT 
PERMITTED BY LAW, HARVARD HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND (EXPRESS, 
IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE) REGARDING THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY 
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, 
OWNERSHIP, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.  HARVARD  MAKES NO WARRANTY ABOUT THE 
ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, SUFFICIENCY OR QUALITY OF THE 
SOFTWARE.  HARVARD DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL OPERATE WITHOUT 
ERROR OR INTERRUPTION.

8. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND REMEDIES. USE OF THE SOFTWARE IS AT END USER’S 
OWN RISK. IF END USER IS DISSATISFIED WITH THE SOFTWARE, ITS EXCLUSIVE REMEDY 
IS TO STOP USING IT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL HARVARD BE LIABLE TO END USER OR ITS 
INSTITUTION, IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND 
WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF HARVARD 
IS NEGLIGENT OR OTHERWISE AT FAULT, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HARVARD IS 
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

9. INDEMNIFICATION. To the extent permitted by law, End User shall indemnify, 
defend and hold harmless Harvard, their corporate affiliates, current or 
future directors, trustees, officers, faculty, medical and professional staff, 
employees, students and agents and their respective successors, heirs and 
assigns (the "Indemnitees"), against any liability, damage, loss or expense 
(including reasonable attorney's fees and expenses of litigation) incurred by 
or imposed upon the Indemnitees or any one of them in connection with any 
claims, suits, actions, demands or judgments arising from End User’s breach of 
this Agreement or its Institution’s use of the Software except to the extent 
caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Harvard. This 
indemnification provision shall survive expiration or termination of this 
Agreement.

10. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be construed and governed by the laws 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts regardless of otherwise applicable choice 
of law standards.

11. NON-USE OF NAME.  Nothing in this License and Terms of Use shall be 
construed as granting End Users or their Institutions any rights or licenses 
to use any trademarks, service marks or logos associated with the Software.  
You may not use the terms “Harvard” (or a substantially similar term) in any 
way that is inconsistent with the permitted uses described herein. You agree 
not to use any name or emblem of Harvard or any of their subdivisions for any 
purpose, or to falsely suggest any relationship between End User (or its 
Institution) and Harvard, or in any manner that would infringe or violate any 
of their rights.

12. End User represents and warrants that it has the legal authority to enter 
into this License and Terms of Use on behalf of itself and its Institution.
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