� Copyright 1993-2008 by Ziheng Yang

The software package is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. In no
event shall the author or his employer be held responsible for any damage
resulting from the use of this software, including but not limited to the
frustration that you may experience in using the package. The program package,
including source codes, example data sets, executables, and this documentation,
is distributed free of charge for academic use only. Permission is granted to
copy and use programs in the package provided no fee is charged for it and
provided that this copyright notice is not removed.


Suggested citations:
Yang, Z. 1997. PAML: a program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum
likelihood. Computer Applications in BioSciences 13:555-556.

Yang, Z. 2007. PAML 4: a program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum
likelihood. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 1586-1591
(http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/software/paml.html).


Recent changes and bug fixes are documented in the file doc/pamlHistory.txt.
The author can be reached at the following address. However, emails are not
welcome: please post your questions and comments at the PAML discussion
site: http://gsf.gc.ucdavis.edu/.

Ziheng Yang
Department of Biology
University College London
Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
England
Fax: +44 (20) 7679 7096