Technosoftware AG offers various products arround OPC and licenses on a simple per-developer basis and charges no royalties, runtimes, or server deployment fees unless otherwise specified which maximizes cost savings at application distribution and installations. When you buy a license you receive the following:
- The right for one, named and registered developer per license to use and develop commercial applications with the license. All developers in your company using the license will need individual licenses.
- Maintenance: One year of upgrades to all new releases of the license
- Support: Email- and Helpdesk based Support Incidents.
Evaluation Edition
If you downloaded a trial or evaluation version of the Software from Technosoftware’s website or obtained it through other means, you may install and use one copy of the Software on a single computer of your organization, solely for evaluation and testing purposes during the evalu-ation period. You may not use the Software for commercial purposes. You may not make accessi-ble the Software to third parties and you must make sure that no one except your authorized employees has access to the computer where the Software is installed. The Software may contain a disabling mechanism that will prevent it from be-ing used after the evaluation period. You must not tamper with the disabling mechanism or the Soft-ware. After the evaluation period, if you do not order the registered version of the Software, you must remove/destroy the Software and Do-cumentation without delay.
Runtime License
If you purchased runtime licenses you are permitted to use the Software according to the number of purchased licenses. For each license you are permitted to install and use one copy of the Software on a single computer, you might deploy or install the Software together with your end-user products or stand alone.
Developer Edition
A developer license grants the use of the Software for the purpose of software development of OPC enabled products or applications. If you have purchased a developer license the Software may be used within your organization by a single developer to develop applications. Multiple copies of the Software may exist on more than one computer, as long as the use of the Software is by the same developer. In addition, you are permitted to deploy the application making use of the Software. The Software might be used by being compiled into, linked or bind to your application. All use of the Software shall be solely in accordance with the documentation. You are not allowed to resell, rent, lease or subli-cense an unmodified or modified version of this Software as stand-alone product, nor to build toolkit or developer tools from it. You are permit-ted to use the software to build, deploy, sell and distribute end-user products. Licensee must comply with all of the following:
- Licensee is permitted to distribute the appli-cations that are built with the Software only in conjunction with and as an integral part of your application, and distribute the binary files only as an integral part of your end-user application. Redistributables, if any, shall be li-censed to Licensee's customer "as is"
- Licensee’s software product(s) are not an OPC Server and/or Client development tool; licen-see may not use the Software in such a way that results in development of product(s) that are directly or indirectly (i.e. simplified version or platform/language adoption) competitive with the licensed Software itself or other Technosoftware AG developer products family
- Licensee’s applications must add primary and substantial functionality to the licensed Soft-ware; applications may not pass on functio-nality which in a simple way makes it possible for others to create software with the licensed Software (e.g. you may not distribute libraries and corresponding header files of the Soft-ware together with your application)
- Licensee shall indemnify and hold Techno-software AG, its affiliates, contractors, and its suppliers, harmless from and against any claims or liabilities arising out of the use, re-production or distribution of applications
- Licensee may not use Technosoftware’s name, logo or trademark to market your application without explicit written agreement with Tech-nosoftware AG
- Licensee must include a valid copyright notice on his software products
Personal Edition
In addition to the Developer Edition, a Personal Edition is a personal, non-transferable license that grants one software developer the non-exclusive right to use the software on his computers. The license cannot be transferred to another developer and may not be taken by the developer to another employer.
Source Code Edition
In addition to the Developer Edition; if you have purchased the source code developer license of the Software, you must use reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of the source code, including ensuring that it is installed and used only on the machines belonging to Licensee's organization and that it is used only by a single developer for development of components and applications that use the Software and that the source code is not otherwise used or copied.
Corporate Edition
In addition to the Developer Edition and Source Code Edition; if you have purchased the corporate license of the Software, the use of the software is granted for all developers that are employees of the specified Site of the company the license was purchased for. You may not make accessible the Software to third parties and you must make sure that no one except your authorized employees has access to the computer(s) where the Software is installed. You are not allowed to use the software by developers that are employees of affiliates or otherwise associated or subsidiary companies. Only for the development of a component or product of the licensee, the licensee is allowed to give external participants - of this particular development project - access to the software. The licensee must insure that the external development partner is following all rules of this SLA and that the development partner is not using the software for any other purpose than this particular development project with the licensee.
A detailed version of the License Agreement is included in the evaluation/product downloads. Or contact us for a complete version of the License Agreement.
License Agreement