Binary Licensing

Some IT software is made available to third parties in binary-only  form(1). The software package can be downloaded from CERN provided the organization agrees to the License Agreement. The agreement is established through an electronic procedure, and requires full data of the licensee organization to be provided.

The License Agreement contains an Intellectual Property Statement, Distribution Conditions and a Disclaimer Statement.

(1) This is currently the case for the CERN Printing Package (client side), downloaded by  200 organizations world-wide

 

License Agreement for the CERN Printing Package

COPYRIGHT CERN 1999

The copyright and all other rights related to this computer software,
in whatever form, including but not limited to the source code,
the object code and user documentation, are vested in CERN.

Except as provided hereunder, this computer software may not be used,
copied, changed, modified, translated, displayed, distributed or made
available by any method (hereafter collectively and separately
referred to as "use") without prior written consent by CERN.

Academic and scientific institutes only are herewith granted a
royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use this computer software,
subject to the condition that such use shall be for their internal
use only and that any use for commercial purposes is strictly
forbidden. The provision by CERN of this computer software is on an
as-is basis and CERN provides no express or implied warranties of any
kind, including but not limited to those of merchantability, fitness
for a particular purpose and non-infringement of the proprietary
rights, such as copyrights, patents and trade secrets, of third
parties. CERN accepts no liability whatsoever in connection therewith.