Dear Aiswarya,
Chimera is free for any noncommercial use.   It is free for educational purposes and academic research, including making figures and movies for your own publications.   Only a for-profit company would need to buy a commercial license.

There is no Chimera copyright issue for publishing results, images and/or movies that you generated yourself by using the software. We only ask that you cite program properly as described here:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/credits.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Nov 3, 2022, at 5:35 AM, aiswarya tressa chacko via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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> Sir/Madam,
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> I am a post graduate student who is working on a research article which involves molecular docking and analysis. I am using the free software of UCSF Chimera (version 1.16) for obtaining results and analysing them. I am wondering whether using these results and images that I acquired from Chimera in my research study, will subject me to Copyright Issues. 
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> Kindly address my doubt as soon as possible.