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Using Open-source-Software
General Information
Our products contain, amongst others, so-called open-source software that is pro-
vided 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 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 soft-
ware contained in our products. The use of the open-source software in our pro-
ducts 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.
