This HydrOffice package is available under two different licensing options designed to accommodate the needs of our various users:
HydrOffice under the Freeware License is appropriate for the use of HydrOffice packages provided you can comply with the following terms and conditions.
FREEWARE LICENSE
END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
By the University of New Hampshire,
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
NOTICE TO USER:
Please, read this carefully. By using all or any portion of the Software you accept all the terms and conditions of the Agreement. If you do not agree, do not use this Software.
I. Definitions
When used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings indicated, such meanings to be applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined:
I.1 “Licensor” means the University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.
I.2 “Licensee” mean You or Your Company, unless otherwise indicated.
I.3 “Software” means (a) all of the contents of the files, disk(s), CD-ROM(s) or other media with which this Agreement is provided, including but not limited to ((i) registration information, i.e. License key which is unique for a registration name of the Licensee; (ii) related explana-tory written materials or files (“Documentation”); and (iii) Software setup files and code samples (if any); and (b) upgrades, modified versions, updates, additions, and copies of the Software, if any, licensed to you by the University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (collectively, “Updates”).
I.4 “Use” or “Using” means to access, install, download, copy or otherwise benefit from using the functionality of the Software in accordance with the Documentation.
I.5 “System” means Windows OS, GNU/Linux or Mac OS X, or any virtual machine.
II. General Use
You are granted a non-exclusive License to Use the downloaded Software for any purposes for an un-limited period of time. The software product under this License is provided free of charge. Even though a license fee is not paid for the use of such software, it does not mean that there are no conditions for using such software.
II.1 The Software may be installed and Used by the Licensee for any legal purpose.
II.2 The Software may be installed and Used by the Licensee on any number of systems.
II.3 The Software can be copied and distributed under the condition that original copyright no-tice and disclaimer of warranty will stay intact and the Licensee will not charge money or fees for the Software product, except to cover distribution costs.
II.4 The Licensee will not have any proprietary rights in and to the Software. The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that the Licensor retains all copyrights and other proprietary rights in and to the Software.
II.5 Use within the scope of this License is free of charge and no royalty or licensing fees shall be paid by the Licensee.
III. Intellectual Property Rights
III.1 This License does not transmit any intellectual rights on the Software. The Software and any copies that the Licensee is authorized by the Licensor to make are the intellectual property of and are owned by the Licensor.
III.2 The Software is protected by copyright, including without limitation by Copyright Law and international treaty provisions.
III.3 Any copies that the Licensee is permitted to make pursuant to this Agreement must contain the same copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on or in the Software.
III.4 The structure, organization and code of the Software are the valuable trade secrets and confidential information of the Licensor. The Licensee agrees not to decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software.
III.5 Any attempts to reverse-engineer, copy, clone, modify or alter in any way the installer program without the Licensor’s specific approval are strictly prohibited. The Licensee is not au-thorized to use any plug-in or enhancement that permits to save modifications to a file with software licensed and distributed by the Licensor.
III.6 Trademarks shall be used in accordance with accepted trademark practice, including identi-fication of trademarks owners’ names. Trademarks can only be used to identify printed out-put produced by the Software and such use of any trademark does not give the Licensee any rights of ownership in that trademark.
IV. Warranty
IV.1 The Licensor warrants that:
IV.2 Except those warranties specified in section 4.1 above, the Software is being delivered to the Licensee “AS IS” and the Licensor makes no warranty as to its use or performance.
The Licensor does not and cannot warrant the performance or results the Licensee may obtain by using the Software. The entire risk arising out of use or performance of the Software remains with the Licensee.
The Licensor gives no warranty, express or implied, that (i) the Software will be of satisfactory quality, suitable for any particular purpose or for any particular use under specified conditions, notwithstand-ing that such purpose, use, or conditions may be known to the Licensor; or (ii) that the Software will operate error free or without interruption or that any errors will be corrected.
V. Limitation of Liability
In no event will the Licensor be liable for any damages, claims or costs whatsoever or any consequen-tial, indirect, incidental damages, or any lost profits or lost savings, even if the Licensor has been ad-vised of the possibility of such loss, damages, claims or costs or for any claim by any third party.
In no event will the Licensee be liable to the Licensor on condition that the Licensee complies with all terms and conditions stated in this License.
VI. Non-waiver
If a portion of this agreement is held unenforceable, the remainder shall be valid. It means that if one section of the Agreement is not lawful, the rest of the Agreement is still in force. A party’s failure to exercise any right under this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of (a) any other terms or condi-tions of this Agreement, or (b) a right at any time thereafter to require exact and strict compliance with the terms of this Agreement.
HydrOffice licensed under the Industrial Associate license is appropriate for proprietary/commercial use, e.g., development of proprietary/commercial software where you do not want to share any source code with third parties or otherwise cannot comply with the terms of the Freeware license. For more information about this option, visit this page.