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us.
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to us as the Named User at any given time. The NSL version of the
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the Programs outside the Territory, except in connection with
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computing capacity, in which case end users accessing the Programs must
be restricted to the Territory.
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time for each licensed concurrent user. You may use the CSL version of
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purpose is to load and run Models that were not originally embedded in
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reasonably necessary to support the use of the Programs in accordance
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and except with respect to Compiled Applications and the Model Manager
feature of the Programs, you may use the Programs only for your internal
operations within the Territory, unless otherwise consented to by us in
writing.
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(xi) Except as expressly allowed otherwise in this Agreement, in no
event may the Programs be used for the purpose of developing an
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as, substantially similar to, competitive with, and/or obviating the
need for functionality in the Programs, and in no event shall you
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is the same as, substantially similar to, competitive with, and/or
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versions thereof) and that was derived through use of the Programs
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disassemble, isolate, separate, or otherwise attempt to derive source code
from any Program(s) or Documentation, except and only to the extent that
such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding
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Notwithstanding anything else set forth in these Terms and Conditions to
the contrary, you may reverse engineer, disassemble, isolate, separate,
and modify only those files specifically listed in the offer.txt file that
is included with the Programs, or listed under your licensed version of
the Programs on https://www.comsol.com/legal/offer, as eligible for such
activities. Upon request as set forth herein, for a period of three years
following your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, we will provide
you with the source or object code needed to recreate any or all of only
those files specifically listed in the offer.txt file that is included
with the Programs, or listed under your licensed version of the Programs
on https://www.comsol.com/legal/offer, as eligible for such activities.
All requests pursuant to this Paragraph shall be made in writing and
addressed by first class mail to the address set forth in the offer.txt
file. We may charge a fee for sending you the code to cover our cost of
distribution.
If you are a licensee in the European Union:
You may decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer the Programs
only where any such act is necessary to create an independent program
which is interoperable with the Programs or with another program or to
observe, study, or test the functioning of the Programs solely to
undertake any Permitted Objective and provided that:
(i) the information necessary to achieve the Permitted Objective has not
already been made available or has not been provided by us within a
reasonable time after a written request to provide such information;
(ii) the compilation, disassembly, reverse-engineering, etc., is
confined to those parts of the Programs necessary to achieve the
Permitted Objective;
(iii) the information gained is not used for anything other than the
Permitted Objective and is not disclosed to any other person except as
may be necessary to achieve the Permitted Objective; and
(iv) the information obtained is not used to create a program(s)
substantially similar in its expression to any Program(s), including,
but not limited to, expressions of the Programs in other computer
languages, or for any other act restricted by copyright in the Programs.
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manager with which the Programs were delivered, and you may not take any
action to interfere with or disable such license manager. You may not
mechanize or automate the process of checking out or in license seats for
one or more Programs and/or components thereof for the purpose of
circumventing license management. Login credentials may not be shared
between users of the Programs.
k. Authentication and Validation. We may use various technologies to
authenticate and validate your use of the Programs and to process related
information in our information systems.
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it was acquired.
If you wish to send us "covered defense information", as such term is
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by us, in our sole discretion. In the event we do not specify a license
type for a trial license, the trial license shall be deemed to be for the
NSL license type for the use of the Named User to whom we have issued such
trial license. Upon expiration of the trial period, all Programs that are
the subject of that trial license shall automatically become
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trial license is in effect, and there shall be no other Maintenance and
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and you shall not act, or fail to act, in any way or manner to
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their respective intellectual property in the Programs and
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licensors only on a need-to-know basis to your employees; you may not
disclose any Confidential Information of ours and our licensors to a third
party; and you shall use all reasonable care to keep the Confidential
Information of ours and our licensors confidential consistent with the
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in this Section 2(n) override any requirement imposed on any licensee
using the Programs by or on behalf of any state or federal government
within the U.S. by any public records, freedom of information, or similar
law providing for public access to governmental records.
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three years following your disclosure of Confidential Information to us:
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p. Exceptions to Confidentiality. The confidentiality obligation set
forth in Section 2(o) shall not apply to any information or materials
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are or become publicly available through no fault of ours; (iii) are
independently developed without reliance on the Confidential Information;
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you; (v) are approved by you in writing for disclosure, or (vi) are made
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nor our receipt of your Confidential Information shall be construed to
limit us from independently developing or acquiring products or
technologies without the use of your Confidential Information, nor to work
with persons or entities that have independently developed information or
materials similar to such Confidential Information. You acknowledge that
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any action, claim, or proceeding against us, our subsidiaries or
affiliates, or any of our or their officers, directors, employees, or
contractors, based in whole or in part on the use, copying, or other
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order requiring the production of such information or to any governmental
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undertake commercially reasonable measures to ensure that any production
of your Confidential Information pursuant to this Section 2(q) is done in
a manner that ensures the confidentiality of such Confidential Information
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and warrant that, to the best of your knowledge, such Submissions do not
infringe any intellectual property rights of any third party; (ii) you
acknowledge that we may use such Submissions but are under no obligation
to do so; (iii) you grant to us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, world-wide
license to reproduce, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly
perform, modify, translate, make derivative works based on, manufacture,
make, market, sell, offer to sell and/or otherwise use such Submissions
and derivative works based thereon, in whole or in part, including,
without limitation, by incorporating such Submissions, in whole or in
part, within our Programs and/ or other programs, and occurring in or
through any media now existing or existing at any time in the future, and
to grant sublicenses to engage in the foregoing activities; (iv) you waive
any right or claim to additional consideration for such Submissions beyond
our review of your Submissions and the rights you receive under the Terms
and Conditions (including any claim for payment or other compensation);
and (v) you waive any right or claim to attribution in connection with any
use we may make of such Submissions. To the extent we are not
independently developing ideas, concepts, proposals, or other materials
similar to the Submission(s), we may contact you regarding any Submissions
for which we may want to consider seeking patent rights.
s. Future Releases. We reserve the right to change or discontinue any or
all of the Programs without prior notice, although any such change in, or
discontinuance of, a Program shall not abrogate your right to continue
using a previously licensed Program for the duration of the term.
3. Program Output. You shall own unrestricted rights to all computational
data generated by your use of the Programs that does not reproduce
substantial elements of the Programs, of other programs that interface
with the Programs, or of Models, Physics Interfaces, or Applications that
we publish; provided, however, that Models, Physics Interfaces,
Applications, and Compiled Applications produced by the Programs are
subject to the following restrictions:
a. Models and Physics Interfaces. You may use, publish, distribute, and
authorize others to use Models and Physics Interfaces that you create with
the Programs worldwide, subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
b. Applications.
(i) Creation. We grant you a non-exclusive license, within the
Territory in which you are authorized to use the Programs, to create
Applications that incorporate user generated files that require one or
more of the Programs to run, subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in this Agreement.
(ii) Distribution. We grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive, world-wide
license to distribute any Applications that you create or that you
receive a sublicense to distribute, and we grant you a fully paid,
perpetual, non-exclusive, world-wide license to sublicense the
distribution of any Applications that you create, provided that you and
any distributor or sublicensor of your Applications requires that such
Applications be used in conjunction with licensed use of those Programs
required by the Applications to run and subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement or, with respect to use of a CSL
by others that you authorize, pursuant to the terms and conditions of
the COMSOL Server End User License Agreement, which will be presented to
such users upon first use.
(iii) Use. You may use Applications in conjunction with your licensed
use of those Programs required by the Applications to run, subject to
the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
(iv) Restrictions. Applications are subject to the following
restrictions:
A. No Application may be marketed, distributed, or licensed for use in
competition with us or any of the Programs or as a general purpose
multiphysics simulation package.
B. You may offer your Applications under terms and conditions of your
choosing, provided that (a) insofar as you distribute or license your
Application for use by others any such terms and conditions governing
that redistribution or sublicensing are at least as restrictive as
paragraph D below, (b) no terms and conditions applicable to any
license for your Applications shall alter, amend, conflict with, or
purport to terminate this Agreement in any way, and (c) you may not
distribute your Application under any version of the General Public
License, the Lesser/Library General Public License, the Artistic
License, the Mozilla Public License, the Netscape Public License, the
Sun Community Source License, the Sun Industry Source License, the
Common Public License, or any other license that requires, as a
condition of use, modification, or distribution, that your Application
or other software incorporated into, derived from, or distributed with
your Application (i) be disclosed or distributed in source code form;
(ii) be licensed by the user to third parties for the purpose of
making and/ or distributing derivative works; or (iii) be
redistributable at no charge. If your Application requires third party
software programs to operate, then (i) you must either obtain the
necessary rights to distribute such third party software programs with
your Application or require your customers to obtain the necessary
rights to use such third party software programs with your
Application; (ii) you must obtain sufficient rights from the
publishers of such third party programs to permit the interaction that
your Application makes possible between the Programs and such third
party programs and to permit any publication, distribution, licensing,
and/or sublicensing that you undertake or authorize with respect to
your Application; and (iii) you must otherwise comply with the terms
and conditions of any license agreement governing such third party
programs. In no event shall you distribute your Application in
conjunction with any other software program, or allow your Application
to be used in conjunction with any other software program, where that
other software program is licensed under terms that alter, amend,
conflict with, or purport to terminate this Agreement in any way.
C. All use of our trademarks and third party trademarks in connection
with your Application must comply with the then-current version of our
trademark guidelines, https://www.comsol.com/trademarks.
D. To the extent your Application requires any or all of the CAD
Import Module, Design Module, LiveLink™ for SOLIDWORKS®, LiveLink™ for
Solid Edge®, LiveLink™ for Inventor®, LiveLink™ for AutoCAD®,
LiveLink™ for PTC® Creo® Parametric, LiveLink™ for Revit®, and/or
File Import for CATIA® V5 (the "CAD Interfacing Programs") in order to
run:
(1) Such Application must have a graphical user interface ("GUI").
(2) Such Application, when run in integrated use with any of the
Programs, must be substantially functionally identical to those
Programs, although substantial portions of the Programs' GUI may be
removed or modified.
(3) Such Application must not have as a major function
computer-aided design ("CAD") or be marketed as competitive to any
CAD product.
(4) Such Application must not be marketed as a standalone product
for translating input to or output from any CAD product.
(5) In the event we cease offering any of the CAD Interfacing
Programs required for your Application to run, your rights to
continue to use such Programs for interfacing with your Application
shall be limited to the term of the license you have purchased and
to the version of the third party CAD product with which such CAD
Interfacing Programs are compatible.
(6) No Application may be marketed, distributed, or licensed as an
alternative means for any third party to access the functionality of
any third party software program to which any of the Programs
interface or as a replacement for any such third party software
program to which any of the Programs interface.
(7) No Application may contain any application programming interface
functions that rename any functions of any third party software
program with which any of the Programs interface without adding
additional value.
(8) No Application may be marketed, distributed, or licensed for use
in violation of any applicable law. You shall be solely responsible
for any governmental approvals needed to market, distribute, or
license an Application for use in a particular industry.
c. Compiled Applications. If your licensed Programs include the COMSOL
Compiler, then the following terms and conditions apply:
(i) Creation. We grant you a non-exclusive license, within the
Territory in which you are authorized to use the COMSOL Compiler for the
sole purpose of creating Compiled Applications from Applications,
provided that each Compiled Application complies with the restrictions
applicable to Applications and subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in this Agreement. Compiled Applications may not be used as a
replacement for an NSL, CPU, FNL, or CKL license for the purpose of
developing Models or Applications. Compiled Applications may not be used
for the purpose of loading and running Models that were not originally
embedded in the Application when developed in the Application Builder.
(ii) Distribution. We grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive, world-wide
license to distribute any Compiled Applications that you create or that
you receive a sublicense to distribute, and we grant you a perpetual,
non-exclusive, world-wide license to sublicense the distribution of any
Compiled Applications that you create, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement.
(iii) Use. You and any sublicensee of yours may use your Compiled
Applications on any machine or network, regardless of whether or not
that machine or network contains any version of the Programs, subject to
the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
(iv) Restrictions. Compiled Applications are subject to the following
restrictions:
A. All restrictions set forth in Section 3(b)(iv) above with respect
to Applications shall apply to Compiled Applications.
B. All users of the Compiled Application must be required to accept
the COMSOL Runtime License Agreement.
C. You shall not in any way interfere with the delivery of the COMSOL
Runtime License Agreement to users of the Compiled Application or of
notices contained in the "About" section of a Compiled Application.
D. You may add your own end-user license agreement to a Compiled
Application, provided that your end-user license agreement does not
conflict with or attempt to supersede any terms and conditions of the
COMSOL Runtime License Agreement.
E. You shall not distribute COMSOL runtime libraries found in a
Compiled Application, apart from as embedded in that Compiled
Application or as a download offered for the sole purpose of
supporting your Compiled Application.
d. Independent Development. You acknowledge that we may be engaged in
independent development in the subject area of any support requests that
relate to any Applications or Compiled Applications created by you, used
by you, or distributed by you or on your behalf and that we have no
obligation to limit or restrict the assignment of personnel based on their
involvement in fulfilling any such support requests. On behalf of yourself
and your parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates, you covenant and
agree not to bring any legal proceeding and not to lend any assistance in
the bringing of any legal proceeding alleging that any independently
developed current or future software products that we distribute infringe
any intellectual property rights of yours or theirs in any Application or
Compiled Application that you or they have developed or any invention,
design, or discovery thereof.
4. License Term. Unless terminated earlier according to this Agreement, this
Agreement shall continue either perpetually or for a limited period, as
identified in a quotation we issue that you accept, in a purchase order
accepted by us or in our invoice. Absent any such earlier termination,
term licenses will end after their term, unless the then-current term
license fee has been previously remitted to us. You shall have the right
to use Programs licensed under a perpetual license indefinitely, subject
to the termination as well as maintenance and support provisions of this
Agreement.
5. Delivery. We may deliver the Programs and Documentation to you in archival
form on physical computer readable media or over the Internet with
installation materials which specify the licensed Programs. You shall be
responsible for all use of your installation materials, authorized or not,
and you shall not disclose the archive installation materials or allow
them to be used except for use as expressly permitted herein.
6. Compliance with Export Laws. The Programs are subject to U.S., European
Union and United Kingdom export control laws or other (U.S., E.U., U.K.,
and non-U.S.) governmental export and import laws and regulations
("Export Laws"). Notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement or any
other agreement, neither you nor any third party may exercise any of your
rights under this Agreement in violation of any Export Law, nor may this
Agreement be transferred to any party where doing so would result in such
a violation. The terms of any limitation on the use, transfer or re-export
of the Programs imposed by us in any document for the purpose of export
control shall prevail over any of the Terms and Conditions in this
Agreement, but it shall be your responsibility to comply with the latest
Export Law. You represent and warrant that, unless authorized by the
government that issued the applicable Export Laws, neither you nor any
person or entity you permit to use the Programs under this Agreement is
located in or is a permanent resident of any country subject to any
U.S. or other embargo or any country that is specially designated by the
U.S. government as a "terrorist supporting" country and that neither you
nor any person or entity you permit to use the Programs under this
Agreement is on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted
parties. If, in connection with any support request, you wish to send us
information that can only be shared with U.S. persons under any Export
Laws, the only way in which you may do so is by email to:
us-export-control@us.comsol.com. You understand and agree that
restricting any support request in this manner will limit the number of
support engineers available to respond to your request, which may limit
our ability to provide a response that is to your satisfaction. In the
event that you wish to include any Confidential Information in such a
support request to be protected in accordance with Section 2(o), you must
mark such email with the designation "Confidential Information" in the
subject line of the message. You shall be solely responsible for ensuring
that all files you send to us in connection with any support request
comply with all applicable Export Laws, including with respect to our
accessing those files in any locations in which we do business and by our
employees, regardless of nationality or residency, unless such requests
are submitted as set forth in this Section 6. In the event you are unable
to provide us with items relevant to a support request on account of
Export Laws, we shall undertake commercially reasonable efforts to address
the support request but do not guarantee our ability to do so.
7. Maintenance and Support.
a. Term for Maintenance and Support. Unless you have purchased a term
license with a Maintenance and Support period expiring prior to the end of
the term, Maintenance and Support will terminate upon the earlier of
twelve (12) months or the expiration of the term. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, termination of the Maintenance and Support period for any one
Program shall terminate the period for Maintenance and Support for all
other Programs that require that Program in order to run, even if such
other Programs were purchased separately, except that installation support
shall be provided where we have sold a license to a Program that is to be
added to one or more Programs that are not on subscription for Maintenance
and Support. That initial period for Maintenance and Support commences on
the first day of the month following the month in which a purchase order
has been accepted. However, if, by that time, you have not yet supplied us
with all of the information needed for us to provide installation
materials, the initial period for Maintenance and Support shall commence
on the first day of the month following the month during which we first
requested the information needed to provide installation
materials. Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no reduction in
the initial period for Maintenance and Support on account of any delay by
us in requesting the information necessary to provide installation
materials or any delay by us in providing installation materials following
receipt by us of all such information.
b. Updates and New Versions. All updates to, and new versions of, the
Programs that we deliver shall be deemed to be part of the Programs that
are licensed pursuant to this Agreement or any successor version of this
Agreement displayed upon installation of such updates to and/or new
versions of the Programs.
c. Renewal. Maintenance and Support may be renewed, at the then-current
price, as long as we offer such services. If you fail to renew Maintenance
and Support when due, we may charge you a fee for restarting Maintenance
and Support.
d. Scope. Maintenance and Support is limited to the latest two released
versions of the Programs and do not include technology preview
functionality or prereleases such as alphas or betas, provided, however,
that certain updates to address programming errors, enhancements, and
security patches may only be available for the then most recently released
version of the Programs. For this purpose, separate versions are defined
by a change in a digit within the first decimal place within the version
number or a change in letters appended thereto.
e. Use of Support Materials. Unless the support request is designated as
Confidential pursuant to Paragraph 2(o), you agree that any materials
provided by you to us in connection with a support request may be retained
and used by us and our contractors and licensors for the purpose of
correcting, developing, and testing workarounds for any programming errors
that such materials may evidence and for the purpose of product
development and improvement.
f. Issuance of License Files. We shall have no obligation to issue
license files for the Programs if such Programs, or Programs on which they
depend, are no longer on subscription for Maintenance and Support, unless
we have sold a license to a Program that is to be added to one or more
Programs that are not on subscription for Maintenance and Support. In the
event a new license file is required in connection with a machine change,
user change, or change in license type, we shall have the right to
condition the issuance of such license file on the provision and
affirmation of such information as we reasonably may request in connection
with such change.
g. Data Transfers. We provide support from different locations in
different countries by different COMSOL entities. Unless you have
restricted a case in the manner specified in Section 6, you are solely
responsible for determining that any data provided to us in connection
with our Maintenance and Support may be transferred and exported to our
different locations and affiliated entities in accordance with applicable
laws, including, without limitation, data security laws, export control
laws, and privacy laws, and otherwise. To the extent you are not able to
provide data lawfully for a particular request for Maintenance and
Support, our fulfillment of that request may be limited or non-existent.
8. LIMITED WARRANTY.
a. We warrant: (i) that we or our licensors have the right to grant the
license rights hereunder; (ii) that for a period of ninety (90) days from
delivery ("Warranty Period") the licensed Programs shall conform in all
material respects to their functional specifications in the Documentation;
and (iii) you may receive a full refund of the initial fee paid for the
Programs if you terminate this Agreement within thirty (30) days of the
date of the delivery of the first version of the Programs that we provide
to you (the "Acceptance Period"). The Programs shall be deemed to be
"delivered" for purposes of the foregoing warranties upon commencement of
the initial software maintenance period as set forth in Section 7.
Delivery of subsequent versions of or upgrades to the Programs shall not
enlarge or restart the Acceptance Period or Warranty Period. IN NO EVENT
SHALL THE FOREGOING WARRANTY OBLIGATIONS EXTEND TO SUBLICENSEES OF THE CSL
OR ASL VERSIONS OF THE PROGRAMS OR TO SUBLICENSEES OF YOUR COMPILED
APPLICATIONS.
b. If a Program does not operate as warranted and you notify us within the
Warranty Period, your exclusive remedy and our sole liability shall be (i)
the correction or workaround of major defects within a reasonable time, or
(ii) if such correction or workaround prove neither satisfactory nor
practical, termination of the relevant license and refund of the initial
license fee paid to us for the Programs.
c. All requests for warranty assistance should be directed to COMSOL AB,
Tegnérgatan 23, SE-111 40 STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Attn: Sales & Marketing
Manager.
d. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED ABOVE, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SPECIFIED IN
SECTION 10, AND EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW, THE
PROGRAMS, DOCUMENTATION, EXAMPLES, AND ALL MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT,
PRE-SALES SUPPORT, PROOFS OF CONCEPT, AND ANY OTHER SERVICES OR ITEMS WE
MAY PROVIDE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT ARE PROVIDED "AS
IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS;" AND WE AND OUR LICENSORS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND
RESELLERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR
OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, DESIGN, OPERATION, LACK OF VIRUSES, ABSENCE OF ERRORS,
ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF OUTPUT, LACK OF NEGLIGENCE, SECURITY, AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE (EVEN IF WE OR OUR LICENSORS,
DISTRIBUTORS OR RESELLERS HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF SUCH A PURPOSE) AND
WARRANTIES ARISING FROM ANY COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE
PRACTICE. FURTHERMORE, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW, IN
NO EVENT SHALL OUR LICENSORS BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY WARRANTIES UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT.
e. YOU ASSUME SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SELECTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO
ACHIEVE YOUR INTENDED RESULTS AND FOR THE INSTALLATION OF, USE OF, INPUTS
YOU PROVIDE FOR, AND RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE PROGRAMS. YOU ASSUME SOLE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SELECTION OF HARDWARE AND DETERMINATION OF SYSTEM
CONFIGURATIONS FOR USE WITH THE PROGRAMS, AND WE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE
FOR TESTING THE PROGRAMS FOR THE HARDWARE AND SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS YOU
MAY CHOOSE. YOU ASSUME SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DETERMINING YOUR RIGHT TO
USE AND AUTHORIZE OTHERS TO USE ANY THIRD PARTY DATA THAT YOU IMPORT FOR
USE WITH THE PROGRAMS. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE PROGRAMS ARE
NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, OR INTENDED FOR USE
OR RESALE AS CONTROL EQUIPMENT IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS REQUIRING
FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE PROGRAMS COULD LEAD
DIRECTLY TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL
DAMAGE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT SIMULATION SOFTWARE IS NOT A
SUBSTITUTE FOR SAFETY AND EFFICACY TESTING FOR ANY PRODUCT OR PROCESS
BEING SIMULATED, AND YOU ASSUME SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCH SAFETY AND
EFFICACY TESTING.
9. Limitation Of Liability. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW
AND EXCEPT FOR OUR INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 10,
OUR SOLE LIABILITY OR OBLIGATION ARISING UNDER OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT (AND THE SOLE LIABILITY OF OUR LICENSORS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND
RESELLERS RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT) IS THE REPLACEMENT OF DEFECTIVE
MEDIA ACCORDING TO THE LIMITED WARRANTY ABOVE. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW AND EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 10, IN NO
EVENT SHALL WE OR OUR LICENSORS, DISTRIBUTORS, OR RESELLERS BE LIABLE TO
YOU FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION, DAMAGES FROM THIRD PARTY CLAIMS, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF
DATA, INVASION OF PRIVACY, FAILURE TO MEET ANY DUTY SUCH AS GOOD FAITH OR
REASONABLE CARE, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER LOSS, EVEN IF WE OR THEY HAVE
BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, E.G., WE ARE UNABLE TO
REMEDY ANY DEFECT IN THE PROGRAMS. IN ANY EVENT, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW AND EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 10, OUR AND
THEIR MAXIMUM LOSS, REGARDLESS OF ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF OURS OR ANYONE
UNDER OUR DIRECTION OR CONTROL, SHALL NOT IN TOTAL EXCEED THE AGGREGATE
AMOUNT PAID TO US IN THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING YOUR CLAIM(S), AND FOR
SUCH PURPOSES, ALL CLAIMS SHALL BE AGGREGATED. FURTHERMORE, EXCEPT TO THE
EXTENT REQUIRED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR LICENSORS BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
ANY DAMAGES OF ANY NATURE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT. The remedies against us and our licensors, distributors, and
resellers expressly provided herein are exclusive and are in lieu of any
other remedies at law or in equity. The fees and limitations of liability
and remedies for the license to the Programs reflect the allocation of
risk between the parties. This section is an essential element of the
basis of the bargain between the parties.
10. Indemnification.
a. By You. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless us and our
parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, distributors, and
resellers, and each of our and their officers, directors, employees and
representatives, against and from any and all Losses arising out of or in
connection with any and all third party claims relating to any use of the
Programs by you and any act or omission of yours or relating to
Applications or Compiled Applications created by you, used by you, or
distributed by you or on your behalf, including third party claims related
to your activities pursuant to this Agreement, except to the extent we
indemnify you as described below. If you are a governmental user in a
jurisdiction which limits your ability to enter into indemnification
agreements, then the foregoing indemnification obligation shall apply only
to the extent permitted by applicable law.
b. By Us. We agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless you, your
parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors, and each of your and
their officers, directors, employees and representatives, against and
from, and to the extent you suffer, any Losses because the licensed
Programs infringe a third party's intellectual property rights.
c. Limitation. We shall have no liability or obligation to you hereunder
for any infringement based upon (i) the combination of any of the licensed
Programs with any other software, hardware or other products not developed
by us, (ii) the use of other than a current, unaltered version of the
licensed Programs, (iii) any use of a licensed Program for other than its
intended purpose, (iv) modifications, improvements and derivative works of
the licensed Programs created by or on behalf of you, or (v) if you breach
this Agreement for failure to pay amount due. For the avoidance of doubt,
we shall have no liability or obligation to you hereunder for any
infringement of a third party's intellectual property rights by any goods
or services designed by you through use of the Programs.
d. Cooperation. In connection with any claim or action described in this
Section, the party seeking indemnification (i) will give the indemnifying
party prompt written notice of the claim, (ii) will cooperate with the
indemnifying party (at the indemnifying party's expense) in connection
with the defense and settlement of the claim, and (iii) will permit the
indemnifying party to control the defense and settlement of the claim,
provided that the indemnifying party may not settle the claim without the
indemnified party's prior written consent (which will not be unreasonably
withheld). Further, the indemnified party (at its cost) may participate
in the defense and settlement of the claim. Any breach of this paragraph
by the indemnified party that causes prejudice to the indemnifying party
shall relieve the indemnifying party of its indemnification obligation.
11. Third Parties. You shall notify us of third parties (and give their
respective names, addresses, and contact information) that have access to
or use the licensed Programs on your behalf. This provision shall not
limit your other obligations hereunder.
12. Prevailing Party. If any legal action or other proceeding is brought for
any breach of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to
recover its reasonable attorneys' fees and other costs incurred in
bringing such action or proceeding, in addition to any other relief to
which such party may be entitled, including, without limitation, any
interest or penalties specified in our invoice to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
13. Taxes. You shall be liable for any taxes (except those on our net income)
due in connection with this Agreement.
14. Termination. We may terminate this Agreement by written notice to you if
you breach any of the Terms and Conditions and have not cured such breach
within sixty (60) days (within fifteen (15) days if the breach is for
non-payment) thereafter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may terminate
at any time in the event you make any unauthorized use, reproduction,
distribution, public display, or public performance of, or preparation of
derivative works based on, the Programs as delivered hereunder or as
otherwise obtained by you. Furthermore and without limiting any other
remedies available to us, if you or any of your parent companies,
subsidiaries, or affiliates bring any legal proceeding alleging that any
current or future software products that we distribute infringe any
intellectual property rights of yours or theirs in or pertaining in whole
or in part to any Program output that you or they have developed or any
invention, design, or discovery thereof, then we shall have the right to
terminate, effective after thirty (30) days written notice, all licenses
granted to you and them. You may terminate this Agreement at any time for
any reason, but you shall not be entitled to any refund except for license
fees paid for any Programs for which the Acceptance Period has not expired
at the time we receive your notice of termination.
15. Effect of Termination. Immediately upon termination of this Agreement for
any reason, (a) your rights shall cease and all rights granted herein
shall automatically revert to us; (b) you shall stop using the Programs
and Documentation; (c) you shall erase all copies of licensed Programs and
Documentation from your computers and deliver to us all tangible copies of
the Programs and Documentation; (d) you shall pay all amounts due us; and
(e) you shall take such acts and execute all documents we reasonably
request to register or effect the termination. Within five (5) business
days of the termination, you shall provide us with a written declaration
signed under penalty of perjury by you attesting to compliance with the
provisions of subsections (b), (c) and (d) above. Expiration or
termination of this Agreement shall not relieve a party of obligations
accrued before such event. In addition, Sections 1, 2(d), 2(i), 2(n),
2(o), 2(p), 2(q), 3(a), 3(b)(ii)-(iv), 3(c)(ii)-(iv), 8, 9, 10, 12, 13,
14, 15, 17, 19, and 20 of this Agreement shall survive termination or
expiration of this Agreement.
16. Assignment and Transfer. We may freely assign this Agreement. Unless you
provide us with the identity and contact information of any prospective
assignee or transferee of your rights and obligations hereunder and such
transferee or assignee is acceptable to us, you may not assign or
otherwise transfer this Agreement and its rights and obligations, in whole
or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, and any prohibited
assignment or transfer shall be null and void; provided, however, that our
consent shall not be unreasonably delayed or withheld in the event of any
request for assignment or transfer where each of the following conditions
are satisfied: (a) you have provided us with the identity and contact
information of any prospective assignee or transferee of your rights and
obligations hereunder, (b) you have provided us with such information as
we may reasonably request to issue any new license files that may be
necessitated, (c) such assignee or transferee is not in the business of
selling licenses to off-the-shelf software, and (d) such assignee or
transferee either (i) is your successor by merger or operation of law,
(ii) is the purchaser of the assets of your entire business unit using the
Programs, (iii) is controlled by you, (iv) controls you, or (v) is under
common control with you. This Agreement or the relevant provisions shall
be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the successors, executors,
heirs, representatives, administrators and assigns of the parties hereto.
We may charge you an administrative fee for any permitted assignment.
17. Personal Data and Privacy. Certain of your interactions with us involve
providing us with personal data. For information on what personal data we
collect, how we process it, and how you can control the use of your
personal data, see https://www.comsol.com/privacy-policy. If you supply us
with personal data of employees or others, you are solely responsible for
securing their consent in accordance with applicable laws.
18. Revised Terms and Conditions. New releases of the Programs may be licensed
under revised Terms and Conditions, and such revised Terms and Conditions
shall be effective upon installation thereof.
19. Miscellaneous. You shall not grant any ownership right or security
interest in the Programs to any person. You shall comply with all laws
applicable to you in the jurisdiction in which you use the Programs. A
breach of any provision of this Agreement may only be waived in writing
and the waiver of such breach shall not operate or be construed as a
waiver of any subsequent breach. If any of the Terms and Conditions
should, for any reason, be held invalid or unenforceable in any respect,
the remainder of this Agreement shall be enforced to the full extent
permitted by law. A court of competent jurisdiction is hereby empowered to
modify the invalid or unenforceable provision to make it valid and
enforceable. If you purchased a license to the Programs in the Americas
(including the Caribbean and Canada), this Agreement shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and the United States of America, without regard to
conflicts of laws principles. Such licensees agree that any dispute,
controversy, or claim arising out or relating to this Agreement or the
breach, termination, or alleged invalidity thereof shall be subject to
exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and consent to personal jurisdiction
therein. If you purchased a license to the Programs outside the Americas,
this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of Sweden without regard to conflicts of law principles. If you
purchased a license outside the Americas, any dispute, controversy or
claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, or the breach,
termination, or alleged invalidity thereof, shall be finally settled by
arbitration administered by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm
Chamber of Commerce (the "SCC"). The Rules for Expedited Arbitrations
shall apply to such arbitrations, unless the SCC in its discretion
determines, taking into account the complexity of the case, the amount in
dispute and other circumstances, that the Arbitration Rules shall
apply. In the latter case, the SCC shall also decide whether the Arbitral
Tribunal shall be composed of one or three arbitrators. The Parties shall
keep all information, documentation, materials in whatever form disclosed
in the course of such arbitral proceeding confidential and they shall be
used solely for the purpose of those proceedings. The seat of arbitration
shall be Stockholm, Sweden. The language to be used in the arbitral
proceedings shall be English. For all licensees, the parties agree that
neither the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of
Goods nor the provisions of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction
Act ("UCITA") as adopted or as may be adopted by any state shall apply or
govern this Agreement or the relationship of the parties hereto. To the
extent UCITA may be deemed applicable, the parties agree to opt out of its
applicability pursuant to the opt out provisions contained therein. You
may not bring any action against us or our licensors more than two (2)
years after the cause of action accrued. To the extent permitted by law,
you hereby waive any sovereign immunity that you would otherwise be
entitled to assert with respect to any claim arising out of or relating to
these Terms and Conditions. If you are a governmental user in a
jurisdiction whose law restricts your ability to enter into agreements
regarding the terms in this Section 19, then such Section shall be
enforceable only to the extent permitted by applicable law; and the
applicable law for the governance and construction of this Agreement and
the applicable jurisdiction for disputes between the parties shall be
dictated by any such legal requirement conflicting with this Section
19. If you acquired the Programs outside the United States, then any local
laws conflicting with the selection of applicable law and jurisdiction in
this Section shall be given precedence over this Section. While certain
portions of the Programs have been obtained by us from our licensors, we
are solely responsible for providing licenses to the Programs, and our
licensors have no responsibility for providing such licenses to you, no
obligations with respect to maintenance or support for the Programs or for
addressing claims regarding the Programs, and have made no warranties
regarding the Programs. Our licensors are third party beneficiaries of
this Agreement and shall have the right to enforce its provisions. The
parties to this Agreement hereby confirm their desire that this Agreement,
and any documents relating thereto, be written solely in the English
language. Les parties au présent Accord confirment leur volonté que cet
Accord, ainsi que les documents s'y rattachant, soient rédigés uniquement
en langue anglaise.
20. Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the applicable Addenda hereto (if
relevant), together with any pricing, terms of payment, identification and
quantification of Programs to be delivered, method and location of
delivery, territory, and term set forth on our invoice or order
acknowledgment, contain the entire understanding of the parties with
respect to the subject matter, and supersedes all prior, contemporaneous,
and subsequent proposals, agreements, representations, and
understandings. This Agreement may not be changed except as provided
herein in a writing signed by you and us. No purchase order or any other
standardized business form issued by you, even if such purchase order or
other standardized business form provides that it takes precedence over
any other agreement between the parties, shall be effective to contradict,
modify, add to or delete from the terms of this Agreement in any manner
whatsoever and all such terms are hereby objected to and rejected, except
that, if you are a governmental user in a jurisdiction where contractors
are legally required to comply with applicable laws in order to sell a
software license to that user's governmental unit or entity, then we shall
comply with such laws, provided that we are informed in writing of any
such requirements in advance, provided that such requirements do not
conflict with any other laws applicable to our business operations, and
provided further that this provision may not be used to change the nature,
scope, or duration of the rights you receive in the Programs, our
maintenance obligations, the financial terms of sale, or the rights,
obligations, warranties, or liabilities of our licensors. Any
acknowledgment, in any form, of any such purchase order or standardized
business form is not recognized as a subsequent writing and will not act
as acceptance of such terms.
Academic Addendum
This is an Addendum to the COMSOL Software License Agreement (the
"Agreement"), and the Terms and Conditions of this Addendum are incorporated
therein. Each capitalized term used but not defined herein shall have the
meaning ascribed to it in the Agreement.
Programs licensed to Institutions at Academic Prices are subject to separate
license provisions and are further restricted to use in connection with
on-campus computing facilities that are used solely in support of classroom
instruction and research activities of the Institution's students and
faculty. The right to use the Programs licensed at Academic Prices for
commercial, governmental, or contract work purposes is expressly
prohibited. Academic Prices are offered by us at our sole discretion and we
reserve the right to verify and review eligibility from time to
time. Distribution of Applications produced pursuant to Section 3 of this
Agreement, including for profit, shall not be considered commercial usage
provided that such Applications are made in accordance with this Academic
Addendum and not pursuant to any contractual obligation.
1. General Scope. In addition to the Terms and Conditions in the Agreement,
the provisions of this Academic Addendum apply to each Program licensed
under the Agreement at Academic Prices only to Institutions for NSL, CPU,
FNL, CKL, and ASL versions of the Programs, as defined below.
2. Academic Internal Operations. The NSL, CPU, and FNL versions of the
Programs purchased at Academic Prices give the Licensee the right to use
the software in Academic research as well as teaching at the licensed
Institution. Moreover, a student working on a thesis or a diploma has the
right to use an NSL, CPU, or FNL License purchased at Academic Prices
outside the Institution as long as the usage is restricted to the thesis
or the diploma work. If there is a conflict between the terms in this
Addendum and the Agreement, the Addendum provisions shall control.
3. Class Kit Option. The CKL version of the Programs may be installed and
used by up to 30 students and teachers for the sole purpose of teaching in
an ordinary course, which may be in-person or remote, provided (i) use of
the Programs is restricted to (a) instructional purposes of the course by
enrolled students meeting classroom requirements for courses offered by
the Institution and by teachers of such courses, (b) homework for such a
course, and (c) teacher preparation for such a course; (ii) all
non-classroom use is limited to a single designated individually owned
computer for each such student or teacher during the period of the
academic year when the applicable class is in session and solely for class
purposes; (iii) when a student is not enrolled in the applicable class or
the class ends, the student must remove all copies of the Programs from
his or her computer; (iv) the Programs may not be used for cluster
computing; and (v) the network installation and use requirements of
Section 5 of the Academic Addendum are followed. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any use of the CKL version of the Programs for academic
research, whether as part of a course or otherwise, is expressly
prohibited, and any use of the CKL version of the Programs not expressly
allowed in this Section is prohibited. The CKL does not include the Model
Manager feature of the Programs.
4. Academic Server License.
a. The ASL version of the Programs may be installed on an individual
computer or in a central location on a single dedicated network server or
on the server of a third party providing secure remote computing capacity
through which the Programs are made accessible for academic use permitted
under this Agreement. Log-in credentials may not be shared among
authorized users of the ASL version of the Programs. You may use the ASL
version of the Programs to perform cluster computing. With respect to a
network installation, the Programs may also be installed on individual
computers, as long as the individual installations are controlled by the
license manager on the network server. Any transfer of the license manager
for the Programs from one computer to another shall be conditioned upon
proof to our satisfaction that the license manager was uninstalled from
the first computer. The ASL license permits you to use the Programs for
the sole purpose of hosting and running Applications for academic
use. Your use of Applications must comply with all restrictions on
Applications set forth in Section 3 of this Agreement and with any terms
and conditions specified by the publisher of each Application. Unless
expressly stated otherwise in the Academic Addendum, the ASL version of
the Programs shall be subject to all restrictions applicable to the CSL
version of the Programs.
b. You may have up to 300 concurrent users for an ASL installation. In no
event may any authorized concurrent user use the ASL version of the
Programs to run more than 4 Applications at any given time. The ASL
version of the Programs may be installed, accessed, and used worldwide,
including remotely, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
including, without limitation, compliance with the restrictions set forth
in Section 4, but you must reside in the same territory in which the ASL
license was sold. Authorized users of the ASL version of the Programs
include students, faculty, and staff of your institution and of any other
academic institution, regardless of their location of access, subject to
the following:
(i) You must require each sublicensee to accept this Agreement.
(ii) You shall not take any steps to disable or interfere in any way
with the automatic delivery of this Agreement to authorized users to
whom you provide access to the Programs.
(iii) Any terms and conditions set by you or others for the use of
Applications you make available for use in conjunction with the Programs
shall not alter, amend, conflict with, or purport to terminate this
Agreement.
(iv) When referring to trademarks of ours or of any third party in
connection with opening an installation of the ASL version of the
Programs to use by students, faculty, or staff of other institutions,
you must comply with the then-current version of our trademark
guidelines, https://www.comsol.com/trademarks.
(v) You shall not authorize use of the ASL version of the Programs other
than to host and run Applications that you or your sublicensee is
authorized to run.
(vi) If you use the ASL version of the Programs to call any third party
software, your use of that third party software must comply with all
terms and conditions of the license agreement that gives you the right
to use such third party software, including, without limitation, any
restrictions on how such third party software may be called.
5. Academic Networked Installation and Use. Except with respect to license
files and passcodes for individual computers of CKL student users pursuant
to Section 3 of this Academic Addendum, the FNL and CKL versions of the
Programs may only be used on a network that is restricted to solely
on-campus use, provided, however, that users of the FNL and CKL versions
of the Programs may access and use such Programs via an encrypted
connection providing secure remote access, such as Virtual Private Network
or Remote Desktop Protocol (using Network Level Authentication and using
encryption), solely for the purposes permitted by this Academic
Addendum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section shall
prohibit the installation of the FNL version of the Programs, in
accordance with Section 2(h)(iii) of the Agreement, or of the CKL version
of the Programs on the server of a third party providing secure remote
computing capacity. Furthermore, the NSL version of the Programs licensed
at academic prices may be accessed and used remotely for academic purposes
and subject to the restrictions on remote access to, and use of, NSL
licenses sold at commercial prices.
6. Class Kit Limited Rights. By selecting the CKL, the Institution and any
users of the CKL agree to the Terms and Conditions of the Agreement and
this Academic Addendum for use of the CKL for the academic use set forth
in Section 3 of this Academic Addendum. The Institution is responsible for
ensuring that the total number of students and teachers for each Program
in the CKL does not exceed 30. The Institution shall also be responsible
for, and shall assign a central administrator the task of, accurately
counting, controlling, and administering the use of the CKL, including
without limitation, restricting its use to on-campus computing facilities,
except as set forth in Section 5 of this Academic Addendum, and limiting
its use to the academic use set forth in Section 3 of this Academic
Addendum.
7. Academic Server License Limited Rights. By selecting the ASL, the
Institution and any users of the ASL agree to the Terms and Conditions of
the Agreement and this Academic Addendum for use of the ASL for the
academic use set forth in Section 4 of this Academic Addendum. The
Institution is responsible for ensuring that the total number of
authorized concurrent users of each Program in the ASL does not exceed
300. The Institution shall also be responsible for, and shall assign a
central administrator the task of, accurately counting, controlling, and
administering the use of the ASL, including without limitation, limiting
its use to the academic use set forth in Section 4 of this Academic
Addendum.
8. Support. Support requests for the CKL shall be made by the teachers or
the central administrator of the CKL. Support requests for the ASL shall
be made by the central administrator of the ASL. Support cases for
licenses purchased at academic prices are not eligible for treatment
pursuant to Section 2(o) of the Agreement.
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