Copyright Notice and License Agreement
License agreement version 2.0
Copyright 1995, 1996 HIRANO Satoshi
This software is a property of Dr. HIRANO Satoshi and Agency of
Industrial Science and Technology of Japan (AIST). The distribution
of HORB software is controlled by Dr. HIRANO Satoshi who is a
researcher of Electrotechnical Laboratory of AIST.
Permission to use, copy, modify and redistribution this software
in whole and in part, for evaluation or research purposes and
without fee is hereby granted provided this copyright notice accompanies
any redistribution and under the following licensing conditions:
What you can do:
- You can use, copy, modify and redistribute the whole or a
part of this software for research or evaluation purposes without
fee.
- You can use this software in your company for evaluation.
If you use whole or a part of this software in your commercial
products, please obtain commercial license of ETL HORB (see below).
What you must do:
- Provide this copyright notice if you use the whole or a part
of this software.
- If you distribute a derived work of this software, display
"Copyright 1995, 1996 HIRANO Satoshi" at a certain place.
- The whole or a part of this software must be used for peaceful
purposes. Don't use it for military, weapons-related, or anti-social
activities.
Other licensing conditions:
- This software is provided on an "AS IS" basis, without
warranty of any kind. The security mechanisms in this software
also have inherent limitations. You must use this software at
your risk. Especially, this software is not fault-tolerant and
is not designed to operate for nuclear facilities, aircraft control,
life support systems and other high risk facilities.
- The author shall not be liable for any damages suffered by
you or others as a result of using, modifying or distributing
this software or its derivatives. One must use this software at
one's own risk.
- Some APIs might be changed in future releases.
- The author has the right to change licensing condition in
future releases.
- The author owns copyright for original parts of derived works.
The author has the right to terminate the use of original parts
in derived works, if you or others infringe on the terms of this
license. On termination, you must be liable for any damages resulting
from the termination.
- This copyright and license agreement shall be governed by
the laws of Japan. A court related to this software is Tsuchiura
Chiho Saibansyo in Tsuchiura Japan or another court that the author
specify.
Commercial License:
- Commercial license will be available for use in commercial
products. Please contact to the author for more detail.
If you have questions or requests about this license agreement,
please send mail to the author.