License

Read the following terms and conditions before using the MatriX SDK (hereafter referred to as the Software). This agreement licenses the Software to you and contains warranty and liability disclaimers. By using the software you, the user (“Licensee”), are accepting and agreeing to the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, do not use the Software.

LICENSE

AG-Software (hereafter known as the Author) provides this Software to you and grants to you a non-exclusive license to use the Software for your personal use or in your business or profession.

DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATIONS OF REMEDIES

The Software is provided “as is” and the Author specifically disclaims all warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will the Author be liable to you for any damages, including any loss of profit or other incidental, special or consequential damages even if the Author has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The Author does not warrant, guaranty or make any representations regarding the use, or the results of the use, of the Software in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability, currentness, or otherwise, and does not warrant that the operation of any software will be uninterrupted or error free. The Author expressly disclaims any warranties not stated herein. No oral or written information or advice given by the Author or others shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of the foregoing warranty. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitations or exclusion of liability for incidential or consequential damages so the above exclusions and/or limitations may not apply to you.

GENERAL

The Software is owned by the Author and is protected by German copyright laws and international treaty provisions. You may not sublicense, assign, or transfer the license or the Software. You may not translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or create derivative works based on the Software.

Before using the Software you must agree to the following:

  1. You are not allowed to operate more than one (1) copy of this Software package at one time per license. This means that if you have 10 programmers that COULD possibly use the Software at the same time, you must also have ten (10) licenses.
  2. This license grants you the right to use the Software on a royalty-free basis.
  3. You may not rent or lease the Software. You may not transfer this license without the written permission of the author. If this software is an update or upgrade, you may not sell or give away previous versions.
  4. With all new licenses 12 month support and maintenance is included. The purchased license and all updates you receive within support and maintenance are perpetual.

PROTECTING THE SOFTWARE

The MatriX SDK is an extensive XMPP toolkit for you, the programmer. In order to protect your investment and our intellectual property AG-Software uses various protections to help reduce unauthorized distribution of the Software.

  1. License key: The Software is specially serialized with the registered user’s name, email address and company name. In addition, the license key is specially encoded and encrypted. Each license key is unique to the registered owner. For evaluation you don’t need a license key. If you have not purchased a license then you may only use the Software for evaluation purposes only.
  2. Obfuscation: AG-Software may use obfuscation technologies for all binary builds protect its intellectual property.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOFTWARE

With a purchased license you are allowed to distribute the purchased Software with your application to an unlimited number of users with your personal license key.

GRANT OF NON EXLUSIVE SOURCE CODE LICENSE

The source code to portions of the Software is provided by AG-Software with Subversion (SVN) access to any Licensee that is Authorized provided that Licensee has purchased the Non Exclusive source Code Edition of the Software.

If Licensee is Authorized and has purchased the Non Exclusive source Code Edition of the Software, AG-Software grants Licensee the non-exclusive license to view and modify the Source Code for the sole purposes of education, trouble-shooting, and customizing features. If Licensee modifies the Source Code, Licensee may compile the modified Source Code and use and distribute the resulting object code solely as a replacement for the corresponding Redistributable Files the Source Code normally compiles into. The Licensee is also allowed to compile the original or modified sources directly into the redistributable packages.

The foregoing license is subject to the following conditions:

  1. AG-Software shall retain all rights, title and interest in and to all corrections, modifications and derivative works of the Source Code created by Licensee, including all copyrights subsisting therein, to the extent such corrections, modifications or derivative works contain copyrightable code or expression derived from the Source Code
  2. Licensee may not distribute or disclose the Source Code, or any portions or modifications or derivative works thereof, to any third party, in source code form
  3. Licensee acknowledges that the Source Code contains valuable and proprietary trade secrets of AG-Software, and agrees to expend every effort to insure its confidentiality. The Licensee SHOULD obfuscate the binaries after compilation to protect it.
  4. Under no circumstances may the Source Code be used, in whole or in part, as the basis for creating a product that provides the same, or substantially the same, functionality as any AG-Software product.
  5. Licensee will not request technical support or error corrections from AG-Software on issues arising out of any modifications of the Source Code.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE

With each license one (1) year support and maintenance (S&P) is included. You are eligible to receive all minor and major updates for the version of the software that you license hereunder for a period of one (1) year from the date on you purchase the license for the software. S&P also includes unlimited priority Email support for the version of the software you license hereunder with an average response time of 48 hours during normal business hours (Monday – Friday, Central European Time).

Thanks,

AG-Software Support Team support@ag-software.de http://www.ag-software.net

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