Cosima version 0.9 -- license.txt // please read chapter 10!

Date: 01.05.2010


International license agreement
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Contents:

   1. Object of the contract
   2. Test phase
   3. License
   4. Reductions of the use
   5. Propriety regulation
   6. Copyright
   7. Term of the contract
   8. Guarantee
   9. Liability by the supplier
  10. Special notes by acquisition of preliminary releases
  11. Severability clause
  12. Area of jurisdiction


1. Object of the contract:
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   Object of the contract is a use permission (followingly
   called license) of the computer program Cosima, which the
   company

         Andrea Herbig
         Production of stereo items
         and software
         Reutenhofstr. 42/2
         D-71570 Oppenweiler
         cosima@herbig-3d.de
         http://www.cosima-3d.de

   (followingly supplier mentioned) grants to interested
   persons (followingly called user or licensee).
   Here it is pointed out expressly, that it is not possible
   after the today's state of the art to provide computer
   software, which works error free in all combinations and
   applications. The contractual item is therefore a program
   product, which fulfills the achievements described in the
   guidance and whose faultlessness corresponds to the
   state of the technique.

   For the examination of the suitability of the program to
   solve special tasks of the licensee and of the
   executability on its hardware a test phase with the not
   licensed version of Cosima software is intended. An use
   fitness or an executability in this sense is therefore
   in no case a component of this contract.

   The user accepts these conditions by first licencing
   and/or first use of the software. If he should be at a
   later time no more in agreement with the conditions of
   this contract, his rights at the software expire.

   It is referred here expressely to the chapter: "Special
   notes by acquisition of preliminary releases"!


2. Test phase:
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   The use of the not licensed version of the program is in
   principle free. Each prospective customer can examine
   thus, whether the software corresponds to its
   requirements. It is therefore expected by the user, that
   he tests the program use in an test environment, in which
   program errors cannot lead to the loss of important data
   (or lost data can be restored from saftey devices).
   Another test field, as well as the unsupervised
   employment is illegal and leads to the loss of any claims
   for damages.


3. License:
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   The supplier gives the right for the contract duration
   using the program Cosima. If the licensee is no natural
   person, it is not allowed to let more than two persons
   per license work with the program at a time. A multiple
   use (Site License) is permissible only according to
   express agreement with the supplier.

   A once acquired license entitles for the use of all
   future versions of COSIMA.

   The installation files of Cosima contain the freeware
   Exiftool, which is licensed unter the GPL
   (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/). The GPL
   text can be found in the subdirectory .\doc. The source
   code of exiftool will be supplied on request.

4. Reductions of the use:
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   It isn't allowed to the licensee
   a) to handout the license-key to third parties in a form,
      which contradicts the license conditions,
   b) to amend the software, to crosscompile or to
      reassemble it,
   c) to create derived works, to multiply the written
      material, to translate or to amend it.


5. Propriety regulation:
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   The licensee attains the unrestricted right to use, not
   however secondary rights at the software himself. The
   owner of all rights going beyond this present contract
   remains exclusively with the supplier Andrea Herbig and
   the author of the software. The supplier reserves itself
   in particular all publication-, duplication-, processing
   and utilization rights at the software.


6. Copyright:
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   The available software is subject to the currently
   accepted copyright. It remains the authors intellectual
   property. The licensee is permitted to handout copies of
   the program for nonprofit purposes. Changes at the
   program or at the enclosed texts are illegal, in
   particular at the copyright notices which represent an
   injury of the copyright. It is expressly forbidden to
   publish or to handout from the supplier provided
   license-keys, which are to ensure the adherence to the
   conditions of the contract.


7. Term of the contract:
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   The contract is temporally not limited. If the licensee
   violates the conditions of the contract, he loses the
   right to use the software. The supplier is then
   authorized to take up software technical measures, which
   prevent the use of the program by the licensee.


8. Guarantee:
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   The supplier guarantees that the software is error free
   in the measure, as it corresponds to the state of the
   art. Serious errors (in particular such, which make the
   use by the licensee impossible or unreasonably strongly
   limits it) are repaired within an appropriate period,
   if the cause is to be assigned clearly to the supplier.


9. Liability by the supplier:
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   A liability for damages of the licensee is only possible,
   if the user acted carefully processing his data, as well
   as considered the use restrictions of this license
   agreement and the damage was caused by gross negligence
   or intention of the supplier. If the licensee is a
   tradesman, also the cause of gross negligence by the
   supplier is excluded. The liability is above all
   expressly impossible, if the damage were caused by
   interaction or due to an error in the interaction of
   different components of the data processing hardware,
   i.e. if the problem does not lie clearly in the licensed
   software.

   A possible liability refers only to direct damages, not
   to consequential damages such as operational failure
   times or delays, escaped profits, demands for payment
   of damages or conventional penalties of third etc. In
   view of the fact, that software cannot be manufactured
   completely error free, it is considered as a condition
   for any demand for payment of damages against the
   supplier, that on the data processing hardware, on which
   the software is used, data backup is accomplished with
   the necessary care and regularity, which are necessary,
   in order to prevent the final loss of important data.


10.Special notes by acquisition of preliminary releases:
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   All program releases with version numbers smaller than
   1.0 are called preliminary releases. For these program
   releases the author reserves itself fundamental program
   modifications. These program modifications may contain
   in particular:
   - changes of the licencing algorithm
   - changes at the core algorithm for the image correction
     and thus changes at the correction result
   - changes at the program sequence
   - changes of the program output, in form and content
   - changes at the conversion method of image file formats
   - changes at the method for interactive setting of the
     stereo window
   - changes of the parameter names and changes of the
     allocations of certain detail functions to certain
     parameters and their values.

   If changes at the licencing algorithm should be
   necessary, all registered users receive new valid
   license-keys free of charge.

   Although program modifications usually are to cause
   function extensions and function improvements, also a
   degradation cannot be excluded with a certain image.
   This is not recognized expressly as reason for a contract
   resignation.


11.Severability clause:
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   If parts of this present contract should offend against
   valid rights, only the smallest possible contract part
   (subset, paragraph, section) gets invalid and is replaced
   by an appropriate, legally permissible part.


12.Area of jurisdiction:
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   The area of jurisdiction is Backnang, Germany.
