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Sony Corporation BETA License Agreement
1. Sony Corporation ("Sony") grants to you a non-exclusive,
non-sublicensable, license to use this Beta version of the
Community Place Bureau 1.0 Beta 1 (the "Software"), in binary
executable form for evaluation and trial use purposes only.
THIS SOFTWARE CONTAINS CODE THAT DISABLES MOST OF ITS FEATURES
AFTER OCT. 31, 1996.
2. SONY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE
SUITABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ABOUT ANY CONTENT OR
INFORMATION MADE ACCESSIBLE BY THE SOFTWARE, FOR ANY
PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR
NONINFRINGEMENT. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED
GRATUITOUSLY AND, ACCORDINGLY, SONY SHALL NOT BE
LIABLE UNDER ANY THEORY OR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY YOU
OR ANY USER OF THE SOFTWARE. SONY WILL NOT SUPPORT
THIS SOFTWARE AND WILL NOT ISSUE UPDATES TO THIS
SOFTWARE.
3. All content accessed through the Software is the
property of the applicable content owner and may be
protected by applicable copyright law. This License
gives you no rights to such content.
4. While Sony intends to distribute a commercial
release of the Software, Sony reserves the right at
any time not to release a commercial release of the
Software or, if released, to alter prices, features,
specifications, capabilities, functions, licensing
terms, release dates, general availability or other
characteristics of the commercial release.
5. Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property
rights in and to the Software shall remain in Sony and/or
its suppliers. You agree to abide by the
copyright law and all other applicable laws of the
Japan including, but not limited to, the foreign exchange
and foreign trade cotrol law. You acknowledge that the
Software in source code form remains a confidential trade
secret of Sony and/or its suppliers and therefore you agree
not to modify the Software or attempt to decipher,
decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the
Software, except to the extent applicable laws
specifically prohibit such restriction.
6. Sony may terminate this License at any time by
delivering notice to you and you may terminate this
License at any time by destroying or erasing your copy
of the Software. Upon termination of this License, or
in any event within thirty (30) days following
Sony's release of a commercial version of the
Software, you agree to destroy or erase the Software.
In the event of termination, the following sections of
this License will survive: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
This License is personal to you and you agree not to
assign your rights herein. This License shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of Japan, as to matters affecting
copyrights, trademarks and patents.
This License sets forth the entire agreement
between you and Sony.
7. You may not download or otherwise export or
reexport the Software or any underlying information or
technology except in full compliance with applicable
laws and regulations of Japan.
8. SONY OR ITS SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR
(a) INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR INDIRECT
DAMAGES OF ANY SORT, WHETHER ARISING IN TORT, CONTRACT
OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF SONY HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR (b) FOR ANY CLAIM BY
ANY OTHER PARTY. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL
NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY TO
THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LAW PROHIBITS SUCH LIMITATION.
Community Place Bureau are trademarks of Sony Corporation.
Copyright (c) 1995,1996 Sony Corporation.
All rights reserved.