Copyright

openSputnik is the complete work of Stephen Rudd, and as such I claim all rights to the software and its implementation. I have released openSputnik under the GNU public license and you are absolutely free to do with openSputnik whatever takes your fancy. Please enjoy it, abuse it, and make it work better. I would be honoured if I could integrate any of your changes back into the product - and to make laboratory based bioinformatics and comparative genomics a better place?

The original Sputnik software was an academic product and all rights to this software are owned by the GSF Research Center for Health and the Environment, Neuherberg, Germany.

(c) Stephen Rudd, 2003

Much of openSputnik is hosted at SourceForge

Stephen Rudd works at the Centre for Biotechnology in Turku, Finland