License agreement

USE OF THE SOFTWARE IS SUBJECT TO THE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS SET FORTH BELOW. USING THE SOFTWARE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, YOU MUST RETURN OR DELETE THE SOFTWARE IMMEDIATELY.

This software is distributed as demoware. You are entitled to use this software MPEG Layer-3 codec for 30 days for evaluation purposes. If you want to continue to use this software codec after the evaluation period, or if you want to use this software commercially, you are required to buy the software. In the sense of these license terms, USE shall mean running one of the programs and/or make use of bitstreams generated by this software. You may give copies of the demo version of this software to other people as long as no file is changed and no file is omitted. You may not sell, rent or lease the software to others.

If you have bought this product, you are entitled to use this product for your own use. You may not sell, rent or lease the software to others without written permission of Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS). You may use only one copy of the software at one time. You may not use this software on a network or on more than one computer at the same time without a licence for »concurrent use«.

You must not give away your personal registration code. Doing so will result in an infringement of copyright. Fraunhofer IIS and/or OPTICOM retain the right of claims for compensation in respect of damage which occured by your giving away of the registration code. This claim shall also extent to all costs which Fraunhofer IIS and/or OPTICOM incur in defending itself.

The license and right for the use of this Software does not include the right to create, generate, encode or otherwise modify data or bit streams:

to be used, sold, published, distributed, disposed of or otherwise marketed via pre-recorded media, such as but not limited to CD-ROM, magnetic tapes, memory cards and the like;
to be used, sold, reproduced, published, distributed, disposed of or otherwise marketed via any kind of network, if a user will have to pay a monetary or equivalent compensation for the access, copying etc. of such data or bit stream;
for the purpose of broadcast and/or radio and/or multicast service transmission such as but not limited to »Internet Radio«and the like.

layer3@iis.fhg.de, 03/98