Thomas

Didn't ICON consider that indeed, this decision might stimulate the divergence 
of an open-source clade of NONMEM, somewhat like R stemmed out of S-plus? If a 
small academic group starts to work in that direction, it would certainly be 
quickly joined by many...

Thierry Buclin
Univ. Hospital, Lausanne

De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la 
part de Ludden, Thomas
Envoyé : jeudi, 2. juillet 2009 15:15
À : Eleveld, DJ; [email protected]
Cc : Krohn, Anthony
Objet : RE: [NMusers] NONMEM 7 Update

Dear All:
Icon Development Solutions has invested in the further development of NONMEM.  
By mutual agreement with the University of California at San Francisco, NONMEM 
7 is intellectual property belonging to IDS.  However, IDS will continue to pay 
royalties to UCSF.

The business plan under which NONMEM 7 was developed calls for the protection 
of the I.P. involved.  In addition, NONMEM 7 contains several updated routines 
developed and owned by IMSL (Visual Numerics Inc.).  Our agreement with IMSL 
stipulates that we will not distribute their source code. The installer will 
compile the software but will not allow the unencrypted source code to remain 
on the users computer.  The licensing agreement will also stipulate that any 
attempt to access the source code will be a violation of the agreement.

Some source code will be left unencrypted for various reasons, one being the 
need for users to change certain values in SIZES and perhaps other resource 
routines.
Tom

Thomas M. Ludden Ph.D.
Vice-President, Pharmacometrics R&D
ICON Development Solutions
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