COPYRIGHT
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SOM Toolbox, a software library for Matlab 5 implementing the
Self-Organizing Map algorithm is Copyright (C) 1997 by Esa Alhoniemi,
Johan Himberg, Kimmo Kiviluoto, Jukka Parviainen and Juha Vesanto.

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or any later version.

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this package (file License.txt); if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307, USA.


LICENSING THE LIBRARY FOR PROPRIETARY PROGRAMS
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As stated in the GNU General Public License (see License.txt) it is
not possible to include this software library in a proprietary program
without written permission from the owners of the copyright. If you 
wish to obtain such permission, you can reach us by paper mail: 

  SOM Toolbox team
  Laboratory of Computer and Information Science
  P.O.Box 2200
  FIN-02015 HUT 
  Finland
  Europe 

and by email:

  somtlbx@mail.cis.hut.fi







