DASH7 Alliance Specification Document License
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SPECIFICATION DOCUMENT LICENSE
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agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following terms and conditions:
This SPECIFICATION LICENSE AGREEMENT (“The Agreement”) is entered into by the DASH7
Alliance, the Licensee and organization that the Licensee represents at the time of registration
(“Licensee Organization”). The Licensee must provide complete and accurate registration information,
including name, organizational affiliation, title within the organization, and full contact information.
Providing incomplete or inaccurate registration information voids the Agreement.
By accepting the Agreement, and providing valid registration information, your are granted to
download the DASH7 Alliance Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network Protocol Documentation (“the
Specification”) from DASH7 Alliance official website. The Specification is a personal copy,
watermarked with your name and email address, as provided by you during registration. Your personal
copy shall be treated by you, the Licensee and your organization, the Licensee organization, as
confidential information, and as such you are not allowed to share it outside your organization. In case
persons outside your organization are interested in acquiring the Specification, please encourage them
to request their FREE personal copy from DASH7 Alliance.
RECITALS
a. DASH7 Alliance, VZW is a nonprofit membership organization having its main address at
Boudewijnlaan 20-21, 4rd floor, B-1000 Brussels, BELGIUM (“DASH7 Alliance”) that specifies,
drafts and edits the Specification, develops the Certification procedures of Implementations of the
Specification, promotes the standardization of the Specification, and provides a framework for
cooperation among organizations willing to use the Specification for education and training purposes
and for developing prototypes and commercial products.
b. DASH7 Alliance work products (“the Materials”) are developed in DASH7 Alliance chartered action
groups consisting of member representatives and invited experts under the auspices of an Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR) Policy by which action group participants are asked to disclose any claims made
on the DASH7 Alliance Materials.
c. DASH7 Alliance is the sole arbitrator of compliance to the Specification and the sole grantor of
DASH7 Alliance compliant designations of any kind. DASH7 Alliance is the sole maintainer and
evolver of the Specification.
d. Users of the Specification are encouraged to engage directly with DASH7 Alliance as DASH7
Alliance members, in order to enhance the level of interoperability. Users may also provide feedback
without being DASH7 Alliance members by contacting the DASH7 Alliance Protocol Action Group at
pag@dash7-alliance.org
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LICENSE AGREEMENT
You, (the Licensee) and your organization (the Licensee organization) are legally bound by this
agreement with respect to your usage of the Specification.
1. Ownership and Attribution
a. Ownership Of Copyrights.
DASH7 Alliance owns the copyright on the Specification and the Materials except as may be noted in
the body of such Materials.
b. Intellectual Property Rights Claims.
According to the DASH7 Alliance IPR Policy, any organization, by becoming a DASH7 member, is
deemed by taking such action, to have agreed to grant a License to Implementers, with or without
compensation, with respect to all Necessary Claims Owned by it and each of its Related Parties, under
all new and amended text in such Specification, and with respect to all Necessary Claims Owned by it
and each of its Related Parties under all other Draft Specifications and Specifications.
Therefore, the Specification is notated with any potential IPR claims of organizations that are DASH7
Alliance members at the time of the approval of the Final Draft of the Specification. Implementers of
the Specification are advised to read such notations carefully. DASH7 Alliance takes no position with
respect to any IPR rights claimed. DASH7 Alliance invites any interested party to bring to its attention
any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights, which may cover technology
that may be required to implement the Specification.
c. Attribution.
Any use of the Specifications or other Materials provided by DASH7 Alliance must be accompanied by
the copyright legends provided with full attribution given to DASH7 Alliance.
2. Grant of License
DASH7 Alliance hereby grants to the Licensee that has entered the Agreement an irrevocable,
worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, nontransferable, nonexclusive, nonsublicenseable license download
and utilize the Specification in their entirety with all copyright legends and notices intact. The
Specification may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references
to DASH7 Alliance.
DASH7 Alliance hereby grants the Licensee Organization, its Related Parties a worldwide, perpetual,
royalty-free, nontransferable, nonexclusive, nonsublicenseable license to download and utilize the
Specification for the purpose of developing, making, having made, using, marketing, importing,
offering to sell or license, and selling or licensing, and to otherwise distribute, products that implement
the Specification, in all cases subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and IPR notices
contained within the Specification.
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THE DASH7 ALLIANCE DOES NOT GRANT, EITHER EXPRESSLY OR IMPLIEDLY, A
LICENSE TO ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IT, OR ANY THIRD PARTIES, OWN OR
CONTROL.
An implementation of the Specification must not claim to be a compliant implementation of the
Specification unless it passes the DASH7 Alliance Certification in accordance with DASH7 Alliance
processes. Licensee agrees to publicly and visibly acknowledge and attribute to DASH7 Alliance the
Specification upon which products are based to any and all Development Partner(s).
3. No Warranties
THE SPECIFICATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY,
COMPLETENESS AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. ANY WARRANTY
OF NON-INFRINGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. ANY USE OF THIS SPECIFICATION
SHALL BE MADE ENTIRELY AT THE IMPLEMENTER'S OWN RISK. IN NO EVENT SHALL
DASH7 ALLIANCE MEMBERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, OR ANY
DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SPECIFICATION.
4. Third Party Rights
Without limiting the generality of Section 2 above, DASH7 ALLIANCE ASSUMES NO
RESPONSIBILITY TO COMPILE, CONFIRM, UPDATE OR MAKE PUBLIC ANY THIRD PARTY
ASSERTIONS OF PATENT OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS THAT MIGHT BE
INFRINGED BY AN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SPECIFICATION. IF ANY SUCH RIGHTS
ARE DESCRIBED ON THE SPECIFICATION, DASH7 ALLIANCE TAKES NO POSITION AS TO
THE VALIDITY OR INVALIDITY OF SUCH ASSERTIONS, OR THAT ALL SUCH ASSERTIONS
THAT HAVE OR MAY BE MADE ARE SO LISTED.
5. Feedback
The DASH7 Alliance is willing to receive input, suggestions and other feedback (“Feedback”) on the
Specification. By providing such Feedback to the DASH7 Alliance, you grant to the DASH7 Alliance
and all its Members a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free
copyright license to copy, publish, license, modify, sublicense or otherwise distribute and exploit your
Feedback for any purpose. Likewise, if incorporation of your Feedback would cause an implementation
of the Specification to necessarily infringe a patent or patent application that you own or control, you
hereby commit to grant to all Implementers of such Specification an irrevocable, worldwide,
sublicenseable, royalty free license under such patent or patent application to make, have made, use,
sell, offer for sale, import and export products or services that implement the Specification. You
warrant that (a) to the best of your knowledge you have the right to provide this Feedback, and if you
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are providing Feedback on behalf of an organization, you have the rights to provide Feedback on behalf
of your organization; (b) the Feedback is not confidential to you and does not violate the copyright or
trade secret interests of another; and (c) to the best of your knowledge, use of the Feedback would not
cause an implementation of the Specification to necessarily infringe any third-party patent or patent
application known to you. You also acknowledge that the DASH7 Alliance is not required to
incorporate your Feedback into any version of the Specification.
6. Termination of License
a. Breach. In the event of a breach of this Agreement by Licensee or any of its Related Parties, DASH7
Alliance shall give Licensee written notice and an opportunity to cure. If the breach is not cured within
thirty (30) days after written notice, or if the breach is of a nature that cannot be cured, then DASH7
Alliance may immediately or thereafter terminate the licenses granted in this Agreement; provided,
however, that Licensee and its Related Parties shall be permitted to continue to use products created or
obtained prior to such termination.
b. Notice. Licensee may immediately terminate the licenses granted in this Agreement upon written
notice to DASH7 Alliance.
7. Miscellaneous
a. Notices. All notices required under this Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be deemed effective
five days from deposit in the mails. Notices and correspondence to (a) DASH7 Alliance must be sent
to the address shown above, and (b) to Licensee shall be sent to the address identified by Licensee in
the form completed by Licensee below in this Agreement.
b. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed and interpreted under the internal laws of
Belgium, without giving effect to its principles of conflict of law.
c. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between
DASH7 Alliance, the Licensee and the Licensee Organization regarding the subject matter contained
herein. No modification or waiver of this Agreement shall be binding unless it is in writing and signed
by all parties. If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be omitted and the remaining terms shall remain
in full force and effect. This Agreement supersedes any and all prior agreements between DASH7
Alliance and Licensee regarding Licensee's right to use the Specification.
No other rights are granted by implication, estoppel or otherwise.
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