Complex sentence: Inslaw developed the earliest versions of PROMIS during the 1970s under contracts and grants from the United States Department of Justice that granted the government licenses to use those particular versions but not to modify them to create derivative works or to distribute them outside the federal government.
Split into simpler sentences: Inslaw developed the earliest versions of PROMIS during the 1970s under contracts and grants from the United States Department of Justice. DOJ granted the government licenses to use those particular versions but not to modify them, or to create derivative works, or to distribute them outside the federal government.