Though developed and originally distributed academically
with source code for public bioinformatics data search
and retrieval, the Sequence Retrieval System is and always
has been copyrighted work of its authors, primarily Thure
Etzold.  This software is now developed commercially, and it
has benefited greatly in growth and expansion from commercialization
and the support provided through that venue.

The company Lion Bioscience continues (as of 2002) to provide
use of SRS free for academic and non-commercial services, at
http://www.lionbioscience.com/ (see also http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/)

It is with some regret that I remove the publicly distributed
source to SRS from this archive of bioinformatics works, as it
has played a prominent role in the growth of public bioinformatics
databanks and their distribution and use by bioscientists.

-- Don Gilbert, September 2002