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The BINGO! License
Release 3.4.1
Copyright (c) 2004 Max Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany
Database and Information Systems Research Group
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Weikum
All rights reserved.
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 
- The name "BINGO!" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this 
software without prior permission from Prof. Weikum. This does not apply to add-on 
libraries or tools that work in conjunction with BINGO! framework. 
- Prof. Weikum may publish revised and/or new versions of the license from time to time. Each version will be given a distinguishing version number. Once covered code has been published under a particular version of the license, you may always continue to use it under the terms of that version. You may also choose to use such covered code under the terms of any subsequent version of the license published. No one other than Prof. Weikum has the right to modify the terms applicable to covered code created under this License. 
- Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: 
"This software includes BINGO!, freely available from http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/ag5/software/bingo/". 

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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH GROUP 
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, 
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH 
GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE 
GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER 
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, 
EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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If you use BINGO! in your scientific work, please cite as:

Sergej Sizov, Michael Biwer, Jens Graupmann, Stefan Siersdorfer,
Martin Theobald, Gerhard Weikum, Patrick Zimmer:
The BINGO! System for Information Portal Generation and Expert Web Search. 
The 1st Semiannual Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 
Asilomar(CA), 2003 

available at

http://www-db.cs.wisc.edu/cidr2003/program/p7.pdf

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This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many individuals 
on behalf of the Database and Information Systems Research Group.

The Database and Information Systems Research Group can be contacted via email at 
weikum@mpi-sb.mpg.de.