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- BitTorrent Open Source License
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- Version 1.1
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- This BitTorrent Open Source License (the "License") applies to the BitTorrent
- client and related software products as well as any updates or maintenance
- releases of that software ("BitTorrent Products") that are distributed by
- BitTorrent, Inc. ("Licensor"). Any BitTorrent Product licensed pursuant to
- this License is a Licensed Product. Licensed Product, in its entirety, is
- protected by U.S. copyright law. This License identifies the terms under which
- you may use, copy, distribute or modify Licensed Product.
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- Preamble
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- This Preamble is intended to describe, in plain English, the nature and scope
- of this License. However, this Preamble is not a part of this license. The
- legal effect of this License is dependent only upon the terms of the License
- and not this Preamble.
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- This License complies with the Open Source Definition and is derived from
- the Jabber Open Source License 1.0 (the "JOSL"), which has been approved by
- Open Source Initiative. Sections 4(c) and 4(f)(iii) from the JOSL have been
- deleted.
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- This License provides that:
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- 1. You may use or give away the Licensed Product, alone or as a component
- of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different
- sources. No royalty or other fee is required.
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- 2. Both Source Code and executable versions of the Licensed Product, including
- Modifications made by previous Contributors, are available for your use. (The
- terms "Licensed Product," "Modifications," "Contributors" and "Source Code"
- are defined in the License.)
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- 3. You are allowed to make Modifications to the Licensed Product, and you
- can create Derivative Works from it. (The term "Derivative Works" is defined
- in the License.)
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- 4. By accepting the Licensed Product under the provisions of this License,
- you agree that any Modifications you make to the Licensed Product and then
- distribute are governed by the provisions of this License. In particular,
- you must make the Source Code of your Modifications available to others free
- of charge and without a royalty.
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- 5. You may sell, accept donations or otherwise receive compensation for executable
- versions of a Licensed Product, without paying a royalty or other fee to the
- Licensor or any Contributor, provided that such executable versions contain
- your or another Contributor's material Modifications. For the avoidance of
- doubt, to the extent your executable version of a Licensed Product does not
- contain your or another Contributor's material Modifications, you may not
- sell, accept donations or otherwise receive compensation for such executable.
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- You may use the Licensed Product for any purpose, but the Licensor is not
- providing you any warranty whatsoever, nor is the Licensor accepting any liability
- in the event that the Licensed Product doesn't work properly or causes you
- any injury or damages.
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- 6. If you sublicense the Licensed Product or Derivative Works, you may charge
- fees for warranty or support, or for accepting indemnity or liability obligations
- to your customers. You cannot charge for, sell, accept donations or otherwise
- receive compensation for the Source Code.
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- 7. If you assert any patent claims against the Licensor relating to the Licensed
- Product, or if you breach any terms of the License, your rights to the Licensed
- Product under this License automatically terminate.
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- You may use this License to distribute your own Derivative Works, in which
- case the provisions of this License will apply to your Derivative Works just
- as they do to the original Licensed Product.
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- Alternatively, you may distribute your Derivative Works under any other OSI-approved
- Open Source license, or under a proprietary license of your choice. If you
- use any license other than this License, however, you must continue to fulfill
- the requirements of this License (including the provisions relating to publishing
- the Source Code) for those portions of your Derivative Works that consist
- of the Licensed Product, including the files containing
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- Modifications.
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- New versions of this License may be published from time to time in connection
- with new versions of a Licensed Product or otherwise. You may choose to continue
- to use the license terms in this version of the License for the Licensed Product
- that was originally licensed hereunder, however, the new versions of this
- License will at all times apply to new versions of the Licensed Product released
- by Licensor after the release of the new version of this License. Only the
- Licensor has the right to change the License terms as they apply to the Licensed
- Product.
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- This License relies on precise definitions for certain terms. Those terms
- are defined when they are first used, and the definitions are repeated for
- your convenience in a Glossary at the end of the License.
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- License Terms
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- 1. Grant of License From Licensor. Subject to the terms and conditions of
- this License, Licensor hereby grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive
- license, subject to third party intellectual property claims, to do the following:
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- a. Use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute any
- Modifications created by a Contributor or portions thereof, in both Source
- Code or as an executable program, either on an unmodified basis or as part
- of Derivative Works.
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- b. Under claims of patents now or hereafter owned or controlled by Contributor,
- to make, use, sell, offer for sale, have made, and/or otherwise dispose of
- Modifications or portions thereof, but solely to the extent that any such
- claim is necessary to enable you to make, use, sell, offer for sale, have
- made, and/or otherwise dispose of Modifications or portions thereof or Derivative
- Works thereof.
-
- 2. Grant of License to Modifications From Contributor. "Modifications" means
- any additions to or deletions from the substance or structure of (i) a file
- containing a Licensed Product, or (ii) any new file that contains any part
- of a Licensed Product. Hereinafter in this License, the term "Licensed Product"
- shall include all previous Modifications that you receive from any Contributor.
- Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, By application of the
- provisions in Section 4(a) below, each person or entity who created or contributed
- to the creation of, and distributed, a Modification (a "Contributor") hereby
- grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license, subject to third
- party intellectual property claims, to do the following:
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- a. Use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute any
- Modifications created by such Contributor or portions thereof, in both Source
- Code or as an executable program, either on an unmodified basis or as part
- of Derivative Works.
-
- b. Under claims of patents now or hereafter owned or controlled by Contributor,
- to make, use, sell, offer for sale, have made, and/or otherwise dispose of
- Modifications or portions thereof, but solely to the extent that any such
- claim is necessary to enable you to make, use, sell, offer for sale, have
- made, and/or otherwise dispose of Modifications or portions thereof or Derivative
- Works thereof.
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- 3. Exclusions From License Grant. Nothing in this License shall be deemed
- to grant any rights to trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets or any
- other intellectual property of Licensor or any Contributor except as expressly
- stated herein. No patent license is granted separate from the Licensed Product,
- for code that you delete from the Licensed Product, or for combinations of
- the Licensed Product with other software or hardware. No right is granted
- to the trademarks of Licensor or any Contributor even if such marks are included
- in the Licensed Product. Nothing in this License shall be interpreted to prohibit
- Licensor from licensing under different terms from this License any code that
- Licensor otherwise would have a right to license. As an express condition
- for your use of the Licensed Product, you hereby agree that you will not,
- without the prior written consent of Licensor, use any trademarks, copyrights,
- patents, trade secrets or any other intellectual property of Licensor or any
- Contributor except as expressly stated herein. For the avoidance of doubt
- and without limiting the foregoing, you hereby agree that you will not use
- or display any trademark of Licensor or any Contributor in any domain name,
- directory filepath, advertisement, link or other reference to you in any manner
- or in any media.
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- 4. Your Obligations Regarding Distribution.
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- a. Application of This License to Your Modifications. As an express condition
- for your use of the Licensed Product, you hereby agree that any Modifications
- that you create or to which you contribute, and which you distribute, are
- governed by the terms of this License including, without limitation, Section
- 2. Any Modifications that you create or to which you contribute may be distributed
- only under the terms of this License or a future version of this License released
- under Section 7. You must include a copy of this License with every copy of
- the Modifications you distribute. You agree not to offer or impose any terms
- on any Source Code or executable version of the Licensed Product or Modifications
- that alter or restrict the applicable version of this License or the recipients'
- rights hereunder. However, you may include an additional document offering
- the additional rights described in Section 4(d).
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- b. Availability of Source Code. You must make available, without charge, under
- the terms of this License, the Source Code of the Licensed Product and any
- Modifications that you distribute, either on the same media as you distribute
- any executable or other form of the Licensed Product, or via a mechanism generally
- accepted in the software development community for the electronic transfer
- of data (an "Electronic Distribution Mechanism"). The Source Code for any
- version of Licensed Product or Modifications that you distribute must remain
- available for as long as any executable or other form of the Licensed Product
- is distributed by you. You are responsible for ensuring that the Source Code
- version remains available even if the Electronic Distribution Mechanism is
- maintained by a third party.
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- c. Intellectual Property Matters.
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- i. Third Party Claims. If you have knowledge that a license to a third party's
- intellectual property right is required to exercise the rights granted by
- this License, you must include a text file with the Source Code distribution
- titled "LEGAL" that describes the claim and the party making the claim in
- sufficient detail that a recipient will know whom to contact. If you obtain
- such knowledge after you make any Modifications available as described in
- Section 4(b), you shall promptly modify the LEGAL file in all copies you make
- available thereafter and shall take other steps (such as notifying appropriate
- mailing lists or newsgroups) reasonably calculated to inform those who received
- the Licensed Product from you that new knowledge has been obtained.
-
- ii. Contributor APIs. If your Modifications include an application programming
- interface ("API") and you have knowledge of patent licenses that are reasonably
- necessary to implement that API, you must also include this information in
- the LEGAL file.
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- iii. Representations. You represent that, except as disclosed pursuant to
- 4(c)(i) above, you believe that any Modifications you distribute are your
- original creations and that you have sufficient rights to grant the rights
- conveyed by this License.
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- d. Required Notices. You must duplicate this License in any documentation
- you provide along with the Source Code of any Modifications you create or
- to which you contribute, and which you distribute, wherever you describe recipients'
- rights relating to Licensed Product. You must duplicate the notice contained
- in Exhibit A (the "Notice") in each file of the Source Code of any copy you
- distribute of the Licensed Product. If you created a Modification, you may
- add your name as a Contributor to the Notice. If it is not possible to put
- the Notice in a particular Source Code file due to its structure, then you
- must include such Notice in a location (such as a relevant directory file)
- where a user would be likely to look for such a notice. You may choose to
- offer, and charge a fee for, warranty, support, indemnity or liability obligations
- to one or more recipients of Licensed Product. However, you may do so only
- on your own behalf, and not on behalf of the Licensor or any Contributor.
- You must make it clear that any such warranty, support, indemnity or liability
- obligation is offered by you alone, and you hereby agree to indemnify the
- Licensor and every Contributor for any liability incurred by the Licensor
- or such Contributor as a result of warranty, support, indemnity or liability
- terms you offer.
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- e. Distribution of Executable Versions. You may distribute Licensed Product
- as an executable program under a license of your choice that may contain terms
- different from this License provided (i) you have satisfied the requirements
- of Sections 4(a) through 4(d) for that distribution, (ii) you include a conspicuous
- notice in the executable version, related documentation and collateral materials
- stating that the Source Code version of the Licensed Product is available
- under the terms of this License, including a description of how and where
- you have fulfilled the obligations of Section 4(b), and (iii) you make it
- clear that any terms that differ from this License are offered by you alone,
- not by Licensor or any Contributor. You hereby agree to indemnify the Licensor
- and every Contributor for any liability incurred by Licensor or such Contributor
- as a result of any terms you offer.
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- f. Distribution of Derivative Works. You may create Derivative Works (e.g.,
- combinations of some or all of the Licensed Product with other code) and distribute
- the Derivative Works as products under any other license you select, with
- the proviso that the requirements of this License are fulfilled for those
- portions of the Derivative Works that consist of the Licensed Product or any
- Modifications thereto.
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- g. Compensation for Distribution of Executable Versions of Licensed Products,
- Modifications or Derivative Works. Notwithstanding any provision of this License
- to the contrary, by distributing, selling, licensing, sublicensing or otherwise
- making available any Licensed Product, or Modification or Derivative Work
- thereof, you and Licensor hereby acknowledge and agree that you may sell,
- license or sublicense for a fee, accept donations or otherwise receive compensation
- for executable versions of a Licensed Product, without paying a royalty or
- other fee to the Licensor or any other Contributor, provided that such executable
- versions (i) contain your or another Contributor's material Modifications,
- or (ii) are otherwise material Derivative Works. For purposes of this License,
- an executable version of the Licensed Product will be deemed to contain a
- material Modification, or will otherwise be deemed a material Derivative Work,
- if (a) the Licensed Product is modified with your own or a third party's software
- programs or other code, and/or the Licensed Product is combined with a number
- of your own or a third party's software programs or code, respectively, and
- (b) such software programs or code add or contribute material value, functionality
- or features to the License Product. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent
- your executable version of a Licensed Product does not contain your or another
- Contributor's material Modifications or is otherwise not a material Derivative
- Work, in each case as contemplated herein, you may not sell, license or sublicense
- for a fee, accept donations or otherwise receive compensation for such executable.
- Additionally, without limitation of the foregoing and notwithstanding any
- provision of this License to the contrary, you cannot charge for, sell, license
- or sublicense for a fee, accept donations or otherwise receive compensation
- for the Source Code.
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- 5. Inability to Comply Due to Statute or Regulation. If it is impossible for
- you to comply with any of the terms of this License with respect to some or
- all of the Licensed Product due to statute, judicial order, or regulation,
- then you must (i) comply with the terms of this License to the maximum extent
- possible, (ii) cite the statute or regulation that prohibits you from adhering
- to the License, and (iii) describe the limitations and the code they affect.
- Such description must be included in the LEGAL file described in Section 4(d),
- and must be included with all distributions of the Source Code. Except to
- the extent prohibited by statute or regulation, such description must be sufficiently
- detailed for a recipient of ordinary skill at computer programming to be able
- to understand it.
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- 6. Application of This License. This License applies to code to which Licensor
- or Contributor has attached the Notice in Exhibit A, which is incorporated
- herein by this reference.
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- 7. Versions of This License.
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- a. New Versions. Licensor may publish from time to time revised and/or new
- versions of the License.
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- b. Effect of New Versions. Once Licensed Product has been published under
- a particular version of the License, you may always continue to use it under
- the terms of that version, provided that any such license be in full force
- and effect at the time, and has not been revoked or otherwise terminated.
- You may also choose to use such Licensed Product under the terms of any subsequent
- version (but not any prior version) of the License published by Licensor.
- No one other than Licensor has the right to modify the terms applicable to
- Licensed Product created under this License.
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- c. Derivative Works of this License. If you create or use a modified version
- of this License, which you may do only in order to apply it to software that
- is not already a Licensed Product under this License, you must rename your
- license so that it is not confusingly similar to this License, and must make
- it clear that your license contains terms that differ from this License. In
- so naming your license, you may not use any trademark of Licensor or any Contributor.
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- 8. Disclaimer of Warranty. LICENSED PRODUCT IS PROVIDED UNDER THIS LICENSE
- ON AN AS IS BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
- INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES THAT THE LICENSED PRODUCT IS FREE
- OF DEFECTS, MERCHANTABLE, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGING.
- THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LICENSED PRODUCT
- IS WITH YOU. SHOULD LICENSED PRODUCT PROVE DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT, YOU (AND
- NOT THE LICENSOR OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR) ASSUME THE COST OF ANY NECESSARY
- SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN
- ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS LICENSE. NO USE OF LICENSED PRODUCT IS AUTHORIZED HEREUNDER
- EXCEPT UNDER THIS DISCLAIMER.
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- 9. Termination.
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- a. Automatic Termination Upon Breach. This license and the rights granted
- hereunder will terminate automatically if you fail to comply with the terms
- herein and fail to cure such breach within ten (10) days of being notified
- of the breach by the Licensor. For purposes of this provision, proof of delivery
- via email to the address listed in the 'WHOIS' database of the registrar for
- any website through which you distribute or market any Licensed Product, or
- to any alternate email address which you designate in writing to the Licensor,
- shall constitute sufficient notification. All sublicenses to the Licensed
- Product that are properly granted shall survive any termination of this license
- so long as they continue to complye with the terms of this License. Provisions
- that, by their nature, must remain in effect beyond the termination of this
- License, shall survive.
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- b. Termination Upon Assertion of Patent Infringement. If you initiate litigation
- by asserting a patent infringement claim (excluding declaratory judgment actions)
- against Licensor or a Contributor (Licensor or Contributor against whom you
- file such an action is referred to herein as Respondent) alleging that Licensed
- Product directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then any and all rights
- granted by such Respondent to you under Sections 1 or 2 of this License shall
- terminate prospectively upon sixty (60) days notice from Respondent (the "Notice
- Period") unless within that Notice Period you either agree in writing (i)
- to pay Respondent a mutually agreeable reasonably royalty for your past or
- future use of Licensed Product made by such Respondent, or (ii) withdraw your
- litigation claim with respect to Licensed Product against such Respondent.
- If within said Notice Period a reasonable royalty and payment arrangement
- are not mutually agreed upon in writing by the parties or the litigation claim
- is not withdrawn, the rights granted by Licensor to you under Sections 1 and
- 2 automatically terminate at the expiration of said Notice Period.
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- c. Reasonable Value of This License. If you assert a patent infringement claim
- against Respondent alleging that Licensed Product directly or indirectly infringes
- any patent where such claim is resolved (such as by license or settlement)
- prior to the initiation of patent infringement litigation, then the reasonable
- value of the licenses granted by said Respondent under Sections 1 and 2 shall
- be taken into account in determining the amount or value of any payment or
- license.
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- d. No Retroactive Effect of Termination. In the event of termination under
- Sections 9(a) or 9(b) above, all end user license agreements (excluding licenses
- to distributors and resellers) that have been validly granted by you or any
- distributor hereunder prior to termination shall survive termination.
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- 10. Limitation of Liability. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY,
- WHETHER TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL THE LICENSOR,
- ANY CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY DISTRIBUTOR OF LICENSED PRODUCT, OR ANY SUPPLIER OF
- ANY OF SUCH PARTIES, BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
- OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES
- FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY
- AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY SHALL HAVE
- BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
- SHALL NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY RESULTING FROM SUCH
- PARTYS NEGLIGENCE TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LAW PROHIBITS SUCH LIMITATION.
- SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL
- OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS EXCLUSION AND LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO
- YOU.
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- 11. Responsibility for Claims. As between Licensor and Contributors, each
- party is responsible for claims and damages arising, directly or indirectly,
- out of its utilization of rights under this License. You agree to work with
- Licensor and Contributors to distribute such responsibility on an equitable
- basis. Nothing herein is intended or shall be deemed to constitute any admission
- of liability.
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- 12. U.S. Government End Users. The Licensed Product is a commercial item,
- as that term is defined in 48 C.F.R. 2.101 (Oct. 1995), consisting of commercial
- computer software and commercial computer software documentation, as such
- terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (Sept. 1995). Consistent with 48 C.F.R.
- 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4 (June 1995), all U.S. Government
- End Users acquire Licensed Product with only those rights set forth herein.
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- 13. Miscellaneous. This License represents the complete agreement concerning
- the subject matter hereof. If any provision of this License is held to be
- unenforceable, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent necessary
- to make it enforceable. This License shall be governed by California law provisions
- (except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise), excluding
- its conflict-of-law provisions. You expressly agree that in any litigation
- relating to this license the losing party shall be responsible for costs including,
- without limitation, court costs and reasonable attorneys fees and expenses.
- The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International
- Sale of Goods is expressly excluded. Any law or regulation that provides that
- the language of a contract shall be construed against the drafter shall not
- apply to this License.
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- 14. Definition of You in This License. You throughout this License, whether
- in upper or lower case, means an individual or a legal entity exercising rights
- under, and complying with all of the terms of, this License or a future version
- of this License issued under Section 7. For legal entities, you includes any
- entity that controls, is controlled by, is under common control with, or affiliated
- with, you. For purposes of this definition, control means (i) the power, direct
- or indirect, to cause the direction or management of such entity, whether
- by contract or otherwise, or (ii) ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more
- of the outstanding shares, or (iii) beneficial ownership of such entity. You
- are responsible for advising any affiliated entity of the terms of this License,
- and that any rights or privileges derived from or obtained by way of this
- License are subject to the restrictions outlined herein.
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- 15. Glossary. All defined terms in this License that are used in more than
- one Section of this License are repeated here, in alphabetical order, for
- the convenience of the reader. The Section of this License in which each defined
- term is first used is shown in parentheses.
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- Contributor: Each person or entity who created or contributed to the creation
- of, and distributed, a Modification. (See Section 2)
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- Derivative Works: That term as used in this License is defined under U.S.
- copyright law. (See Section 1(b))
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- License: This BitTorrent Open Source License. (See first paragraph of License)
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- Licensed Product: Any BitTorrent Product licensed pursuant to this License.
- The term "Licensed Product" includes all previous Modifications from any Contributor
- that you receive. (See first paragraph of License and Section 2)
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- Licensor: BitTorrent, Inc. (See first paragraph of License)
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- Modifications: Any additions to or deletions from the substance or structure
- of (i) a file containing Licensed
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- Product, or (ii) any new file that contains any part of Licensed Product.
- (See Section 2)
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- Notice: The notice contained in Exhibit A. (See Section 4(e))
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- Source Code: The preferred form for making modifications to the Licensed Product,
- including all modules contained therein, plus any associated interface definition
- files, scripts used to control compilation and installation of an executable
- program, or a list of differential comparisons against the Source Code of
- the Licensed Product. (See Section 1(a))
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- You: This term is defined in Section 14 of this License. EXHIBIT A
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- The Notice below must appear in each file of the Source Code of any copy you
- distribute of the Licensed Product or any hereto. Contributors to any Modifications
- may add their own copyright notices to identify their own contributions.
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