SUN MICROSYTEMS, INC. ("SUN") IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE JAVA (TM) API FOR
XML MESSAGING ("JAXM"), VERSION 1.0, EARLY ACCESS 2, PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE
TO LICENSEE ONLY UPON THE CONDITION THAT LICENSEE ACCEPTS ALL OF THE TERMS
CONTAINED IN THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT"). PLEASE READ THE TERMS
AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE,
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1.0 DEFINITIONS
1.1 "Licensed Software" means the JAXM, Version 1.0, Early Access 2,
Pre-release Software in binary form, any other machine readable materials
including, but not limited to, libraries, source files, header files and
data files, any user manuals, programming guides and any other
documentation provided by Sun to Licensee under this Agreement.
2.0 LIMITED LICENSE
2.1 Sun grants to Licensee, a non-exclusive, nontransferable, royalty-free
and limited license to use the Licensed Software internally for the
purposes of evaluation only. No license is granted to Licensee for any
other purpose; and Licensee may not sell, rent, loan or otherwise encumber
or transfer Licensed Software, in whole or in part, to any third party.
3.0 LICENSE RESTRICTIONS
3.1 Licensee may not duplicate Licensed Software, except for one (1) copy
of Licensed Software and only for archival purposes. Licensee agrees to
reproduce all copyright and any other proprietary right notices on any such
copy.
3.2 Except as otherwise provided by law, Licensee may not modify or create
derivative works of the Licensed Software, reverse engineer, disassemble or
decompile binary portions of the Licensed Software, or otherwise attempt to
derive the source code from such portions.
3.3 No right, title, or interest in or to Licensed Software, any
trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Sun or Sun's licensors is
granted under this Agreement.
3.4 Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed Software for
productive or commercial use.
4.0 NO SUPPORT
4.1 Sun is under no obligation to support Licensed Software or to provide
Licensee with updates or error corrections (collectively "Software
Updates"). If Sun, at its sole option, supplies Software Updates to
Licensee, the Software Updates will be considered part of Licensed
Software, and subject to the terms of this Agreement.
5.0 LICENSEE DUTIES
5.1 Licensee agrees to evaluate and test the Licensed Software for use with
Licensee's products and to provide feedback to Sun's email alias:
JAXM-feedback@sun.com . Sun shall treat any oral or written feedback or
results of Licensee's testing of the Licensed Software, which Licensee
provides to Sun as Sun's Confidential Information (defined in Section 7
below).
6.0 TERM AND TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT
6.1 This Agreement will commence on the date on which Licensee receives
Licensed Software (the "Effective Date") and will expire ninety (90) days
from the Effective Date, unless sooner terminated as provided herein.
6.2 Either Licensee or Sun may terminate this Agreement upon ten (10) days
written notice to the other party. However, Sun may terminate this
Agreement immediately should any Licensed Software become, or in Sun's
opinion be likely to become, the subject of a patent, trade secret, or
copyright infringement claim.
6.3 Sun may terminate this Agreement immediately should Licensee materially
breach any of its provisions or take any action in derogation of Sun's
rights to the Confidential Information licensed to Licensee.
6.4 Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, Licensee will
immediately cease use of and destroy Licensed Software, any copies thereof,
and provide to Sun a written statement certifying that Licensee has
complied with the foregoing obligations.
6.5 Rights and obligations under this Agreement which by their nature
should survive, will remain in effect after termination or expiration
hereof.
7.0 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
7.1 For purposes of this Agreement, "Confidential Information" means: (i)
business and technical information and any source or binary code, which Sun
discloses to Licensee related to Licensed Software; (ii) Licensee's
feedback based on Licensed Software; and (iii) the terms, conditions, and
existence of this Agreement. Licensee may not disclose or use Confidential
Information, except for the purposes specified in this Agreement. Licensee
will protect the Confidential Information with the same degree of care, but
not less than a reasonable degree of care, as Licensee uses to protect its
own Confidential Information. Licensee's obligations regarding Confidential
Information will expire no less than five (5) years from the date of
receipt of the Confidential Information, except for any Sun source code
which will be protected in perpetuity. Licensee agrees that Licensed
Software contains Sun trade secrets.
7.2 Notwithstanding any provisions contained in this Agreement concerning
nondisclosure and non-use of the Confidential Information, the
nondisclosure obligations of Section 7.1 will not apply to any portion of
Confidential Information that Licensee can demonstrate in writing is: (i)
now, or hereafter through no act or failure to act on the part of Licensee
becomes, generally known to the public; (ii) known to Licensee at the time
of receiving the Confidential Information without any obligation of
confidentiality; (iii) hereafter rightfully furnished to Licensee by a
third party without restriction on disclosure; or (iv) independently
developed by Licensee without any use of the Confidential Information.
7.3 Licensee must restrict access to Confidential Information on a
"need-to-know" basis to its employees or contractors with a need for this
access to perform their employment or contractual obligations and who have
agreed in writing to be bound by a confidentiality obligation, which
incorporates the protections and restrictions substantially as set forth in
this Agreement.
8.0 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
8.1 Licensee acknowledges that Licensed Software may contain errors and is
not designed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or
maintenance of any nuclear facility ("High Risk Activities"). Sun disclaims
any express or implied warranty of fitness for such uses. Licensee
represents and warrants to Sun that it will not use, distribute or license
the Licensed Software for High Risk Activities.
8.2 LICENSED SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS". ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY
OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE DISCLAIMED, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH
DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID.
9.0 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
9.1 Licensee acknowledges that the Licensed Software is experimental and
that it may have defects or deficiencies, which cannot or will not be
corrected by Sun. Licensee will hold Sun harmless from any claims based on
Licensee's use of the Licensed Software for any purposes other than those
of internal evaluation, and from any claims that later versions or releases
of any Licensed Software furnished to Licensee are incompatible with the
Licensed Software provided to Licensee under this Agreement.
9.2 Licensee shall have the sole responsibility to adequately protect and
backup Licensee's data or equipment used in connection with the Licensed
Software. Licensee shall not claim against Sun for lost data, re-run time,
inaccur