SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
Unless you and Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom) execute a separate written software license agreement governing use of the accompanying software, this software is licensed to you under the terms of this Software License Agreement (Agreement).
ANY USE, REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOFTWARE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT.
1. DEFINITIONS.
1.1. Broadcom Product means any of the proprietary integrated circuit product(s) sold by Broadcom with which the Software was designed to be used, or their successors.
1.2. Licensee means you or if you are accepting on behalf of an entity then the entity and its affiliates exercising rights under, and complying with all of the terms of this Agreement.
1.3. Software shall mean that software made available by Broadcom to Licensee in binary code form with this Agreement.
2. LICENSE GRANT; OWNERSHIP
2.1. License Grants. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Broadcom hereby grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license (i) to use and integrate the Software in conjunction with any other software; and (ii) to reproduce and distribute the Software complete, unmodified and only for use with a Broadcom Product.
2.2. Restriction on Modification. If and to the extent that the Software is designed to be compliant with any published communications standard (including, without limitation, DOCSIS, HomePNA, IEEE, and ITU standards), Licensee may not make any modifications to the Software that would cause the Software or the accompanying Broadcom Products to be incompatible with such standard.
2.3. Restriction on Distribution. Licensee shall only distribute the Software (a) under the terms of this Agreement and a copy of this Agreement accompanies such distribution, and (b) agrees to defend and indemnify Broadcom and its licensors from and against any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim, lawsuit or action by any third party that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Software by the Licensee except as contemplated herein.
2.4. Proprietary Notices. Licensee shall not remove, efface or obscure any copyright or trademark notices from the Software. Licensee shall include reproductions of the Broadcom copyright notice with each copy of the Software, except where such Software is embedded in a manner not readily accessible to the end user. Licensee acknowledges that any symbols, trademarks, tradenames, and service marks adopted by Broadcom to identify the Software belong to Broadcom and that Licensee shall have no rights therein.
2.5. Ownership. Broadcom shall retain all right, title and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to the Software. Licensee hereby covenants that it will not assert any claim that the Software created by or for Broadcom infringe any intellectual property right owned or controlled by Licensee.
2.6. No Other Rights Granted; Restrictions. Apart from the license rights expressly set forth in this Agreement, Broadcom does not grant and Licensee does not receive any ownership right, title or interest nor any security interest or other interest in any intellectual property rights relating to the Software, nor in any copy of any part of the foregoing. Licensee shall not (i) use, license, sell or otherwise distribute the Software except as provided in this Agreement, (ii) attempt to reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Software; or (iii) use the Software or other material in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including but not limited to any regulatory agency, such as FCC, rules.
3. NO WARRANTY OR SUPPORT
3.1. No Warranty. THE SOFTWARE IS OFFERED AS IS, AND BROADCOM GRANTS AND LICENSEE RECEIVES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY STATUTE, COMMUNICATION OR CONDUCT WITH LICENSEE, OR OTHERWISE. BROADCOM SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT CONCERNING THE SOFTWARE OR ANY UPGRADES TO OR DOCUMENTATION FOR THE SOFTWARE. WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE ABOVE, BROADCOM GRANTS NO WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE IS ERROR-FREE OR WILL OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, AND GRANTS NO WARRANTY REGARDING ITS USE OR THE RESULTS THEREFROM INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ITS CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY.
3.2. No Support. Nothing in this agreement shall obligate Broadcom to provide any support for the Software. Broadcom may, but shall be under no obligation to, correct any defects in the Software and/or provide updates to licensees of the Software. Licensee shall make reasonable efforts to promptly report to Broadcom any defects it finds in the Software, as an aid to creating improved revisions of the Software.
3.3. Dangerous Applications. The Software is not designed, intended, or certified for use in components of systems intended for the operation of weapons, weapons systems, nuclear installations, means of mass transportation, aviation, life-support computers or equipment (including resuscitation equipment and surgical implants), pollution control, hazardous substances management, or for any other dangerous application in which the failure of the Software could create a situation where personal injury or death may occur. Licensee understands that use of the Software in such applications is fully at the risk of Licensee.
4. TERM AND TERMINATION
4.1. Termination. This Agreement will automatically terminate if Licensee fails to comply with any of the terms and conditions hereof. In such event, Licensee must destroy all copies of the Software and all of its component parts.
4.2. Effect Of Termination. Upon any termination of this Agreement, the rights and licenses granted to Licensee under this Agreement shall immediately terminate.
4.3. Survival. The rights and obligations under this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination will remain in effect after expiration or termination of this Agreement.
5. CONFIDENTIALITY
5.1. Obligations. Licensee acknowledges and agrees that any documentation relating to the Software, and any other information (if such other information is identified as confidential or should be recognized as confidential under the circumstances) provided to Licensee by Broadcom hereunder (collectively, Confidential Information) constitute the confidential and proprietary information of Broadcom, and that Licensees protection thereof is an essential condition to Licensees use and possession of the Software. Licensee shall retain all Confidential Information in strict confidence and not disclose it to any third party or use it in any way except under a written agreement with terms and conditions at least as protective as the terms of this Section. Licensee will exercise at least the same amount of diligence in preserving the secrecy of the Confidential Information as it uses in preserving the secrecy of its own most valuable confidential information, but in no event less than reasonable diligence. Information shall not be considered Confidential Information if and to the extent that it: (i) was in the public domain at the time it was disclosed or has entered the public domain through no fault of Licensee; (ii) was known to Licensee, without restriction, at the time of disclosure as proven by the files of Licensee in existence at the time of disclosure; or (iii) becomes known to Licensee, without restriction, from a source other than Broadcom without breach of this Agreement by Licensee and otherwise not in violation of Broadcoms rights.
5.2. Return of Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all documents and other tangible objects containing or representing Broadcom Confidential Information and all copies thereof which are in the possession of Licensee shall
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