viStaMPS is a scientific-purpose software and cannot be commercialized, nor can parts or products of it be commercialized. Our version of the software is the only official one. Please do not distribute the viStaMPS software to third parties, instead refer to the viStaMPS home page. This is in order to guarantee uniformity in the distribution of updates and information. The authors are not responsible for any damage caused by errors in the software or the documentation.

Users are very welcome to extend the capabilities of the viStaMPS software by implementing new algorithms or improving the existing ones. It is intended that if new software is developed based on viStaMPS, that this also is made available for free to the other users (through us).

We would appreciate if any addition or modification of the software would be announced first to us, so that it can be included in the official (next) version of the software.

Publications that contain figures produced by the viStaMPS software should contain an acknowledgment. (For example: This figure was generated using viStaMPS (Sousa et al., 2013).