License

pVACtools is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause Clear License.

Copyright (c) 2018-2023 Washington University in St. Louis All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted (subject to the limitations in the disclaimer below) provided that the following conditions are met:

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Licenses for Tools used by pVACtools

pVACtools uses a variety of other tools which each have their own license restrictions. By using pVACtools, either standalone or using its Docker image, the user implicitly accepts the license terms of the underlying tools used. By using the standalone IEDB software installed in the pVACtools Docker images, the user also implicitly accepts the IEDB license terms.