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General Limitations. Except as otherwise expressly provided under this Agreement, Customer shall
have no right, and Customer specifically agrees not to:
(i)transfer, assign or sublicense its license rights to any other person, or use the Software on
unauthorized or secondhand Cisco equipment, and any such attempted transfer, assignment or
sublicense shall be void;
(ii)make error corrections to or otherwise modify or adapt the Software or create derivative works
based upon the Software, or to permit third parties to do the same; or
(iii)decompile, decrypt, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Software to
human-readable form to gain access to trade secrets or confidential information in the Software.
To the extent required by law, at Customer's request, Cisco shall provide Customer with the interface
information needed to achieve interoperability between the Software and another independently
created program, on payment of Cisco's applicable fee. Customer shall observe strict obligations of
confidentiality with respect to such information.
Upgrades and Additional Copies. For purposes of this Agreement, “Software” shall include (and the
terms and conditions of this Agreement shall apply to) any upgrades, updates, bug fixes or modified
versions (collectively, “Upgrades”) or backup copies of the Software licensed or provided to Customer
by Cisco or an authorized distributor for which Customer has paid the applicable license fees.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT: (1) CUSTOMER HAS
NO LICENSE OR RIGHT TO USE ANY SUCH ADDITIONAL COPIES OR UPGRADES UNLESS
CUSTOMER, AT THE TIME OF ACQUIRING SUCH COPY OR UPGRADE, ALREADY HOLDS A
VALID LICENSE TO THE ORIGINAL SOFTWARE AND HAS PAID THE APPLICABLE FEE FOR
THE UPGRADE; (2) USE OF UPGRADES IS LIMITED TO CISCO EQUIPMENT FOR WHICH
CUSTOMER IS THE ORIGINAL END USER PURCHASER OR LESSEE OR WHO OTHERWISE
HOLDS A VALID LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE WHICH IS BEING UPGRADED; AND (3)
USE OF ADDITIONAL COPIES IS LIMITED TO BACKUP PURPOSES ONLY.
Proprietary Notices. Customer agrees to maintain and reproduce all copyright and other proprietary
notices on all copies, in any form, of the Software in the same form and manner that such copyright
and other proprietary notices are included on the Software. Except as expressly authorized in this
Agreement, Customer shall not make any copies or duplicates or any Software without the prior
written permission of Cisco. Customer may make such backup copies of the Software as may be
necessary for Customer’s lawful use, provided Customer affixes to such copies all copyright,
confidentiality, and proprietary notices that appear on the original.
Protection of Information. Customer agrees that aspects of the Software and associated
documentation, including the specific design and structure of individual programs, constitute trade
secrets and/or copyrighted material of Cisco. Customer shall not disclose, provide, or otherwise make
available such trade secrets or copyrighted material in any form to any third party without the prior
written consent of Cisco. Customer shall implement reasonable security measures to protect such trade
secrets and copyrighted material. Title to Software and documentation shall remain solely with Cisco.
