The DALTON program is distributed to the computational chemistry society with no obligations on the side of the authors. The authors thus take no responsibility for the performance of the code or for the correctness of the results. This distribution policy gives the authors no responsibility for problems experienced by the users when using the DALTON program.
A mailing-list --
dalton-users@kjemi.uio.no -- has been created for
the purpose of communication among the authors and the users about
new patches and releases, and communication between users of the
program. The authors hope that the
users will be able to help each others out when problems
arise. All authors of the DALTON program also receive mail from the
mailing-list, but we do not guarantee that any author will reply to
requests posted to the mailing-list. By default, all users signing a
license agreement form will be added to this mailing list. If more
people use the same licensed version, these users may send mail to
dalton-admin@kjemi.uio.no asking to be added to this list as
well as indicating whose licensed version of the program they are using.
Bug reports are to be reported to dalton-admin@kjemi.uio.no and
will be dealt with by one of the authors, although no responsibility
on the promptness of this response is given. In general, serious bugs
that have been
reported and fixed will lead to a new patch of the program, distributed from the
DALTON homepage.
The DALTON program is developed in an anarchistic fashion, that is, future releases of the DALTON program will contain code related to areas where the authors have had their greatest interest lately. Although user feedback on weak points of the code is welcomed, the likelihood that the authors will comply with these are relatively minor.
We encourage users to supply their own modifications to the extent that such extensions/modifications seem relevant to a larger number of users of the program system. The authors will, however, take the liberty of deciding whether a supplied extension will be incorporated into the official version of the program or not.
Pre- and post-processing programs to the DALTON program are always welcome, and will, if permitted by the author, be distributed along with the DALTON distribution with the proper credits to the author(s) or be made available from the DALTON homepage.