Oracle License Agreement For Dyn Updater
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ORACLE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR DYN UPDATER (“License” or “Agreement”)
Version 2.5
(Last Updated April 1, 2017)
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1. Use and Consent to Data Collection and Updates. Oracle grants You a personal, terminable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use one copy of the software program with which this license is distributed (the “Software”) including any documentation accompanying the Software (“Documentation”) for use on only one computer, in accordance with the terms of this License. Additionally, You (a) may only use the Software in connection with the dynamic domain name system service (DNS) or the InternetGuide (i.e., recursive DNS) service provided by Oracle; (b) may only use the Software in accordance with the terms of Oracle’s Acceptable Use Policy for Dyn Services available at http://dyn.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy/;and (c) shall not, under any circumstances, use the Software with a dynamic domain name system service provided by a third party, and you agree that such use constitutes a material breach of this agreement.
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Appendix A: Third-Party Licenses
This appendix contains licensing information about third-party products included with the Dyn Updater.
Oracle acknowledges that the following third-party proprietary and open source software are used in the provided programs covered by this documentation.
PySide
This product uses PySide v 1.2.1 and 1.1.2, each located at http://dyn.com/legal/open-source/ in source form, which is licensed under the LGPL v. 2.1, a copy of which appears below.
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[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.]
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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, we recommend making it free software that everyone can redistribute and change. You can do so by permitting redistribution under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of the ordinary General Public License).
To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the “copyright” line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
Copyright (C)
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the library, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the library `Frob’ (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1990
Ty Coon, President of Vice
That’s all there is to it!