Using Open Source Software; General Information - MB Connect Line mbNET.mini Series Quick Start Up Manual

Using Open Source Software

General Information

Our products contain, amongst others, so-called open-source software that is provided by third
parties and has been published for free public use. The open-source software is subject to special
open-source software licenses and the copyright of third parties. Basically, each customer can use
the open-source soft-ware freely in compliance with the licensing terms of the respective producers.
The rights of the customer to use the open-source software beyond the purpose of our products are
regulated in detail by the respective concerned open-source software licenses. The customer use
the open-source software freely, as provided in the respective effective license, beyond the pur-
pose that the open-source software gets in our products. In case there is a contradiction between
the licensing terms for one of our products and the respective open-source software license, the
respective relevant open-source software license takes priority over our licensing terms, as far as
the respective open-source software is concerned by this.
The use of the used open-source software is possible free of charge. We do not demand usage
fees or any comparable fees for the use of the open-source software contained in our products.
The use of the open-source software in our products by the customer is not part of the earnings we
achieve with the contractual compensation.
All open-source software programs contained in our products can be taken from the available list.
The most important open-source software licenses are listed in the Licenses section at the end of
this publication.
As far as programs contained in our products are subject to the GNU General Public License
(GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD),
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or another open-source software license, which
regulates that the source code must be made available, and if this software is not already delivered
in source code on a data carrier with our product, we will send you this at any time upon request.
If it is required to send this on a data carrier, the sending will be made against pay-ment of a cost
compensation of € 35,00. Our offer to send the source code upon request ceases automatically
three years after delivery of our product to the customer.
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