An academic license for the DSSP program ((c) W. Kabsch, C. Sander and MPI-MF, 1983, 1985, 1988) is granted to in exchange for the following commitments: I hereby certify that (1) I am an academic user at an academic research institution. In using the software, I will respect the interests of the authors and their institutions. (2) I will not use the software in commercial activities without a written commercial license agreement; commercial activities include, in particular, work under contract from a commercial company. (3) I will not redistribute the software to others outside of my immediate research group. I will suggest to other interested research groups to contact the authors directly. (4) I will not alter or suppress the run-time copyright message. (5) I will acknowledge the program authors on any publication of scientific results based in part on use of the program and cite the article in which the program was described. (6) I will report evidence of program bugs to the authors. (7) I will send the source code of any bug corrections and program extensions, major or minor, to the original authors, for free academic use. If I have made major extensions which are incor- porated by the authors, I reserve the right to be appropriately included in any future commercial license agreement. (8) I will not extract part of the software, e.g. modules or sub- routines, for use in other contexts without permission by the authors. (9) I will not use the program in the context of classified research.