SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR TURBOCAP SOFTWARE

CACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

NOTICE TO CUSTOMER:  PLEASE READ THIS CONTRACT CAREFULLY.  BY DOWNLOADING OR USING ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE CACE TECHNOLOGIES TURBOCAP SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ANY UPDATE THERETO, YOU ACCEPT ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.  YOU AGREE THAT THIS AGREEMENT IS ENFORCEABLE LIKE ANY WRITTEN NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT SIGNED BY YOU.  YOU AGREE THAT THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ALL ATTACHMENTS AND EXHIBITS, CONSTITUTES THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN US, AND SUPERSEDES ALL PRIOR SALES PROPOSALS, NEGOTIATIONS, AGREEMENTS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OR COMMUNICATIONS, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN. THIS AGREEMENT IS ENFORCEABLE AGAINST YOU AND ANY LEGAL ENTITY THAT OBTAINED THE SOFTWARE OR ON WHOSE BEHALF IT IS USED.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE.  IF YOU ACQUIRED THE SOFTWARE ON TANGIBLE MEDIA (E.G. CD) WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THIS LICENSE AND YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT, YOU MAY OBTAIN A REFUND OF ANY AMOUNT YOU ORIGINALLY PAID IF YOU (A) DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE AND (B) RETURN IT, TOGETHER WITH THE TURBOCAP GIGABIT ETHERNET BOARD, WITH PROOF OF PAYMENT, TO THE LOCATION FROM WHICH IT WAS OBTAINED WITHIN FIFTEEN (15) DAYS OF THE PURCHASE DATE. 

 

This Software License Agreement (the "Agreement") is made by and between CACE Technologies, Inc. and you as the customer. In this Agreement, the customer will be referred to as "you" and "your"; CACE Technologies, Inc. will be referred to as "CACE" or as "we", "us" and "our".

 

I. What You are Purchasing: TurboCap Software License and TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board.

 

You are purchasing a License to use TurboCap Software (as defined below), together with a TurboCap Ethernet Board.   The Order Form you are completing in connection with Agreement describes the TurboCap Software you are receiving in connection with this Agreement and is incorporated by reference and made a part of this Agreement.  Throughout this Agreement, wherever you are paying for access to software, the word "purchase" shall be deemed to mean "purchase a license", as the software is always licensed, not sold.

 

 

II. How to Buy:  Information You Must Include (and Must Not Include) in Your Order

 

As long as this Agreement is in effect, you may continue to purchase additional Software Licenses to support additional TurboCap Gigabit Boards to your account  by submitting to CACE (and having CACE accept) your completed Order Form.  You must complete all required fields on the Order Form.  As described in the Order Form, your License purchase relates to a specific release of the TurboCap Software and a specific model of the TurboCap

Gigabit Ethernet Board.

 

Other than the Order Form you submit, no other document from you will change or add to or delete any of the terms and conditions of any purchase.  If you are required by your company to use pre-printed purchase orders that refer to additional terms and conditions to effect your purchase, then you must specifically state on the face of your purchase order the following:  "Despite any other terms and conditions printed on or referred to in this purchase order, this order shall be governed solely by the terms and conditions of the Software License Agreement between this company and CACE Technologies, Inc."

 

 

III. Definitions

 

TurboCap Documentation means any manuals, handbooks and other publications provided to you under this Agreement, in hard copy, electromagnetic or other forms, that describe the functions, capabilities, specifications and use of TurboCap Software.

 

TurboCap Adapter means the TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board that you are purchasing together with your

license to the TurboCap Software.

 

TurboCap Software means the TurboCap driver and TurboCap Application API and TurboCap Documentation.  The TurboCap Software is proprietary to CACE and is provided to you in exchange for the payments and subject to the license and other terms specified in this Agreement.  TurboCap Software includes any error corrections, bug fixes, modifications, enhancements made to the TurboCap Software.

 

Effective Date means the first date on which you accept the terms of this Software License Agreement. 

 

License means the license to use the TurboCap Software granted in Article IV, Section 1.

 

Update means a subsequent release of the TurboCap Software that CACE makes generally available to its customers who have purchased Updates.   Updates do not include any release or alternate or subsequent product that CACE licenses separately from the TurboCap Software. 

 

 

IV. License and Other Terms And Conditions

 

YOU AGREE THAT THESE LICENSE AND SUBSCRIPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS SHALL CONTROL THIS AGREEMENT, AND SHALL SUPERSEDE ANY TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT MIGHT ACCOMPANY ANY PURCHASE ORDER (OR ANY OTHER PURCHASE OR SALES DOCUMENT) FROM YOU.

 

1. TurboCap Software License

 

1.1 Scope of License.  CACE grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, non-exclusive, non-transferable, nonsublicensable, revocable license to use the TurboCap Software that you obtain under this Agreement, solely for use together with the TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board.

 

1.2 Restrictions on License. All titles, trademarks, and copyright and restricted rights notices shall be reproduced in any  copies of the TurboCap Software.   You will not, directly or through others: (a) modify or create derivative works of the TurboCap Software nor translate or port the TurboCap Software into any other computer or human language without the prior written consent of CACE; (b) disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile the TurboCap Software or otherwise attempt to discover any portion of the object or source code or trade secrets related to the TurboCap Software; or (c) reproduce the TurboCap Software without CACE's copyright and trademark notices.

 

1.3 Ownership; Proprietary Rights. Any TurboCap Software provided hereunder is licensed, not sold, to you and any and all rights not specifically granted to you by this Agreement, remain in CACE and its suppliers.  The TurboCap Software and TurboCap Adapter are protected by patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other proprietary rights of CACE and its suppliers, and you do not acquire any rights, express or implied, in the TurboCap Software or the TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board, other than those specified in this Agreement.  No title to or

ownership of any TurboCap Software, or copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights in any

Software are transferred to you under this Agreement.  All modifications, adjustments, or error corrections to

the TurboCap Software, will become part of the TurboCap Software and will remain the exclusive property of CACE.

 

2.  TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board.  You expressly acknowledge that the TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet

Board is not manufactured by CACE, and that CACE makes no representations or warranties regarding the functionality or

use of the TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board.

 

3.  Copyright Notices; No Prohibited Combination with Open Source Software; Compliance with License Terms and Laws.  You agree that you will not remove, alter, cover or obfuscate any copyright notices or other proprietary rights notices placed on or embedded in TurboCap Software unless you are expressly authorized to do so by CACE.   You acknowledge and agree that you will ensure that any and all TurboCap Software provided to you by CACE  is not used, copied, modified, distributed or combined with any other software, in any case so as to (i) create, or purport to create, obligations, limitations, or restrictions on the part of CACE;  (ii) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights to or immunities under any CACE intellectual property or proprietary rights; (iii) require or condition the use or distribution of TurboCap Software on, the disclosure, licensing, delivery or distribution of any source code for any portion of such TurboCap Software; or (iv) or in any way in conflict with the rights and obligations stated in any Third Party Software license or with any provision of applicable law.

 

4.  You Agree to Pay us for our Products and Services; Substitutability.   You Will Pay our Fees and any Applicable Taxes.  You agree to pay us for the Licenses and TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board you are

purchasing, at the time you accept the terms of this Agreement.  Subject to Section 7(a), all payments are

non-cancelable and non-refundable.  Fees charged by us do not include any sales, use, excise, value-added, or similar

taxes, and do not include any duties or fees payable on the delivery of the TurboCap Software and TurboCap

Gigabit Ethernet Board in countries other than the United States.  Any such taxes, duties, or fees are your sole

responsibility and shall be either added to our invoice or paid directly by you as required by the jurisdiction in

which you are located.

 

5.  Termination.  You can terminate this Agreement for any reason upon written notice to us; however, except as stated in Section 7(a), all fees paid are noncancelable and nonrefundable.  We may terminate this Agreement at any time upon notice to you for cause, which shall include breach by you of this Agreement.  In the case of non-payment by you of any fees, we can terminate this Agreement unless you pay such fees in full within ten (10) days after such notice. Sections 1.2, 1.3, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7(b), 7(c) 7(d), and 8-12 of Article IV of this Agreement, and all accrued rights to payment, shall survive termination. In the event of termination of this Agreement by CACE for any reason, (i) your rights to use the TurboCap Software shall immediately terminate, (ii) you will cease use of any and all TurboCap Software, (iii) you will return or destroy any copies you have in your possession of such TurboCap Software and (iv) any and all licenses by CACE hereunder shall revert in their entirety to CACE.  Termination is not an exclusive remedy and all other remedies will be available whether or not termination occurs.

 

6.  Indemnification by You.  You agree to, at your expense, indemnify and hold harmless CACE from and against any and all liabilities, losses, actions, damages, or claims (including all reasonable expenses, costs, and attorneys fees) that result from your misappropriation of any intellectual property rights contained in the TurboCap Software or the TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board, or your violation of any of the terms of

Sections 3 or 10 of this Agreement.

 

7.  Warranty and Disclaimers.

 

(a)  Our Promises Regarding our Software.  We warrant to you, and you only, that for a period of thirty (30) days from the Effective Date, the TurboCap Software, when used as anticipated by this Agreement, will be capable of functioning substantially in accordance with the TurboCap Documentation published by us at the time of delivery to you of such TurboCap Software.  If we breach this warranty, our sole obligation shall be to remedy it in one of the following ways.  At our discretion, we will either: repair or replace the defective TurboCap Software or TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board to enable it to perform substantially in accordance with such

TurboCap Documentation; or upon your written request, terminate this Agreement and, after receiving the TurboCap

Gigabit Ethernet Board (s) and TurboCap Software, refund to you the fees paid by you to us. This warranty will not apply if you fail to implement all Updates to the TurboCap Software made available to you. 

 

(b) We Make No Warranty With Respect to Third Party Products.  ALL THIRD PARTY HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE, INCLUDING THE TURBOCAP GIGABIT ETHERNET BOARD, ARE DISTRIBUTED BY CACE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY PROVIDED BY OR ON BEHALF OF CACE.  PLEASE REFER TO THE APPLICABLE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE LICENSE OR WARRANTY INFORMATION FOR ANY WARRANTY THAT MAY BE OFFERED OR DISCLAIMED BY THE LICENSOR OF SUCH SOFTWARE.

 

(c)  We Make No Other Promises. EXCEPT AS STATED IN SECTION 7(a), WE MAKE NO OTHER WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS AS TO ANY SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER, AND HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.  WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE.

 

(d) HIGH RISK ACTIVITIES.  The TurboCap Software and TurboCap Gigabit Ethernet Board are not designed,

manufactured or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe

performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, air traffic control, or direct life support machines, in

which the failure of the Software or Hardware could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage ("High Risk Activities").  Accordingly, we specifically disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for High Risk Activities.

 

8.  OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED. BY ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, YOU AGREE THAT, DESPITE ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE, CACE WILL NOT  BE LIABLE OR OBLIGATED WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY: (I) FOR ANY AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF THE TOTAL OF THE FEES PAID TO US HEREUNDER IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING ANY CLAIM; (II) FOR ANY COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS, TECHNOLOGY, SERVICES OR RIGHTS; OR (III) FOR INTERRUPTION OF USE OR LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA.  DESPITE ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE NOR OBLIGATED WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT OR UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY: (I) FOR ANY MATTER BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL, OR (II) FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS, EVEN IF WE ARE INFORMED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY.  THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY DESPITE THE FAILURE OF THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.  ANY ACTIONS BASED ON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE DATE OF TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.

 

9.  Publicity.  Neither party may issue press releases or endorsements which reference the other party or make any use of the other party's name, logo or trademark without the prior written consent of the other party.

 

10. You Will Comply with Export Regulations and other Applicable Laws.  You agree that the TurboCap Software will not be shipped, transferred or exported into any country or used in any manner prohibited by the United States Export Administration Act or any other applicable laws, restrictions or regulations (collectively the "Laws").  In addition, if the TurboCap Software is identified as export controlled items under any export Laws, you represent and warrant that you are not a citizen, or otherwise located within, an embargoed nation (including without limitation Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Serbia) and that you are not otherwise prohibited under any Laws from receiving or using the Software.

 

11. U.S. Government Users.  The TurboCap Software are "Commercial Items," as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of "Commercial Computer Software" and "Commercial Computer Software Documentation," as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R. §227.7202, as applicable. Consistent with 48 C.F.R. §12.212 and 48 C.F.R. §§227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4, as applicable, the TurboCap Software are being provided to U.S. Government end users (1) only as a Commercial Item, and (2) with only those rights as are granted to all other end users pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 

 

12.  Miscellaneous.

 

(a)  You may not assign, transfer, or sublicense any obligations or benefit under this Agreement without the written consent of CACE.  

 

(b)  We agree that we are independent contractors and neither of us has the right or authority to assume or create any obligation or responsibility on behalf of the other.

 

(c)  All notices under this Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be deemed given when personally delivered or three (3) days after being sent by prepaid certified or registered mail to the address of the party to be noticed as set forth herein or such other address as such party last provided to the other by written notice. 

 

(d)  No failure or delay in exercising any right hereunder will operate as a waiver thereof, nor will any partial exercise of any right or power hereunder preclude further exercise.

 

(e)  If any provision of this Agreement shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.

 

(f)  This Agreement shall be deemed to have been made in, and shall be construed pursuant to the laws of, the State of California and the United States without regard to the conflict of law provisions thereof.   The United Nation's Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly excluded from application to this Agreement.  The sole venue for all disputes relating to this Agreement shall be in Sacramento County, California. 

 

(g) This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be considered an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.

 

(h)  This Agreement may be modified, replaced or rescinded only in writing, and signed by a duly authorized representative of each party. 

 

(i)  References in this Agreement, or any of its attachments, to a capitalized term shall have the meaning set forth in this Agreement.

 

(j)  Headings herein are for convenience of reference only and shall in no way affect interpretation of the Agreement.