Software Licence Agreement/Warranty 8
International Limited Warranty: This product is subject to the terms and conditions set out in the International Limited Warranty which you can download from the Leica Geosystems home page at Leica Warranty or collect from your Leica Geosystems distributor.
Software Licence Agreement
This product contains software that is preinstalled on the product, or that is supplied to you on a data carrier medium, or that can be downloaded by you online according to prior authorisation from Leica Geosystems. Such software is protected by copyright and other laws and its use is defined and regulated by the Leica Geosystems Software Licence Agreement, which covers aspects such as, but not limited to, Scope of the Licence, Warranty, Intellectual Property Rights, Limitation of Liability, Exclusion of other Assurances, Governing Law and Place of Jurisdiction. Please make sure, that at any time you fully comply with the terms and conditions of the Leica Geosystems Software Licence Agreement.
Such agreement is provided together with all products and can also be referred
to and downloaded at the Leica Geosystems home page at Hexagon − Legal Documents or collected from your Leica Geosystems distributor.
You must not install or use the software unless you have read and accepted the
terms and conditions of the Leica Geosystems Software Licence Agreement. Installation or use of the software or any part thereof, is deemed to be an acceptance of all the terms and conditions of such Licence Agreement. If you do not agree to all or some of the terms of such Licence Agreement, you must not download, install or use the software and you must return the unused software together with its accompanying documentation and the purchase receipt to the distributor from whom you purchased the product within ten (10) days of purchase to obtain a full refund of the purchase price.
Open Source information: The software on the product may contain copyright-protected software that is licenced under various open source licences.
Copies of the corresponding licences
• are provided together with the product (for example in the About panel of
the software)
• can be downloaded on
http://opensource.leica-geosystems.com
The Customer is permitted to modify our software components for the customer’s own use and to perform reverse engineering of our software components for debugging of such modifications if these software components are linked with libraries licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
(LGPL). However, forwarding the knowledge acquired during reverse engineering or forwarding modified software to third parties is prohibited.
The safety of this product is of great importance to us.
Therefore, as a rule, modified versions of the deployed Open-Source software
can only be installed if the security features in use are removed by us. Please
note that the installation of modified software can entail that possible safety
requirements on the product are no longer fulfilled and that consequently, it
can no longer be used in the originally intended way.
If you still wish to install modified versions of the software components licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), please contact opensource@leica-geosystems.com noting that you would like to install own versions of the software on your device.
You will then receive all necessary information to return the device to us. In order to comply with our license obligations towards the GPL and/or LGPL licensors, we will remove the security features in use, thereby enabling you to install GPL and/or LGPL software, remove our trademarks from the product, and return the product to you. However, redistribution of the product with modified software is not permitted as exhaustion of the distribution right cannot occur for the specific copy. Also, the use of the product may be prohibited if it violates any legal provisions. It is your responsibility to check whether the use is permissible in the specific case or to obtain the required permits. The warranty is void for any defects related to the use of modified software.
You may also obtain the complete corresponding source code from us on a
physical medium (CD-ROM, DVD or USB memory stick) for a period of 3 (three)
years after our last shipment of the corresponding product by sending an email
to opensource@leica-geosystems.com. Please specify the address to which
you wish us to send the source code. Additional product information (e.g. explicit product name, serial number etc.) will help us to identify the corresponding source code for you. The source code will be sent to the given address after reimbursement of the expenses actually incurred for providing the data carrier and shipping.