Using Open Source Software; General Information - HMS Networks Anybus Defender Compact Quick Start Up Manual

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Using Open Source Software

3.1 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 fre-
ely 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 purpose 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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