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| 2 | Version 1.0 |
| 3 | June 2020 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | This ONF Member-Only Software License (this "License") is entered into by and |
| 6 | between Open Networking Foundation ("ONF") and you and/or the entity on whose |
| 7 | behalf you are accessing the Works (as defined in Section 1 below) ("you"). |
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| 21 | follows: |
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| 23 | 1. DEFINITIONS. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | "Source" form shall mean the preferred form for making modifications, including |
| 26 | but not limited to software source code, documentation source, and |
| 27 | configuration files. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | "Object" form shall mean any form resulting from mechanical transformation or |
| 30 | translation of a Source form, including but not limited to compiled object |
| 31 | code, generated documentation, and conversions to other media types. |
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| 33 | "Works" shall mean the works of authorship, whether in Source or Object form, |
| 34 | made available under this License, as indicated by a copyright notice/header |
| 35 | file that is included in or attached to the Works. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | 2. BACKGROUND. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | The purpose of this License is to provide ONF member companies in good standing |
| 40 | ("Members") with early access to software projects currently in development by |
| 41 | ONF prior to their public release, to allow Members to review and test the |
| 42 | Works internally for the purpose of making further contributions to the |
| 43 | applicable project. Members who are Partner-level Members at the time they |
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| 45 | Works internally for the purpose of building and developing products and |
| 46 | services for commercial purposes as defined in Section 4. However, this |
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| 48 | all or any portion of the Works, except as part of a contribution back to the |
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| 52 | of the final code base for the applicable project to third parties under the |
| 53 | 2.0 version of the Apache License, or other permissive license terms selected |
| 54 | by ONF in its sole discretion. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | The Purpose of this License is to incubate the development of new software |
| 57 | projects by providing a framework for ONF Members to access and contribute to |
| 58 | the projects while minimizing the potential for forking or misuse of the |
| 59 | projects. Nothing in this Background paragraph, however, shall require ONF to |
| 60 | take any particular course of action regarding any Works covered by this |
| 61 | License. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | 3. LIMITED LICENSE TO ALL MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | Subject to your complete and ongoing compliance with all the terms and |
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| 67 | limitations and restrictions set forth herein, ONF grants you the following |
| 68 | limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license |
| 69 | to use, and (where applicable) authorize your employees and contractors |
| 70 | performing work on your behalf (but only if such contractors are themselves |
| 71 | Members of ONF and accept the terms of this License) to use the Works |
| 72 | internally solely in connection with (a) reviewing, testing, modifying and |
| 73 | creating derivatives of the Works for the sole purpose of making contributions |
| 74 | by you to the code repository for the applicable project maintained by ONF; and |
| 75 | (b) building, developing and testing your own applications or components that |
| 76 | may interoperate with or incorporate the Works ("Applications") for the |
| 77 | purposes of internal evaluation only. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | 4. ADDITIONAL LICENSE TO PARTNER-LEVEL MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | Each project subject to this License shall be declared by ONF to be in one of |
| 82 | two phases: a) Incubation Phase, or b) Partner Commercialization Phase. Each |
| 83 | project shall start in the Incubation Phase, and ONF, at its sole discretion, |
| 84 | shall determine when each project moves into the Partner Commercialization |
| 85 | Phase. Each project shall be documented to be in one of these two phases in |
| 86 | the Project's README documentation and can be confirmed by contacting ONF. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | Once any project moves into the Partner Commercialization Phase, if you are a |
| 89 | Partner-level ONF Member in good standing at the time you first access the |
| 90 | Works and for the entire period during which you access and use the Works, in |
| 91 | addition to the rights granted in Section 3, and subject to your complete and |
| 92 | ongoing compliance with all the terms and conditions set forth in this License, |
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| 94 | herein, ONF grants you the limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, |
| 95 | non-sublicensable, revocable license to use, and (where applicable) authorize |
| 96 | your employees and contractors performing work on your behalf (but only if such |
| 97 | contractors are themselves Members of ONF and accept the terms of this License) |
| 98 | to use, test, modify and create derivatives of the Works internally for the |
| 99 | purpose of building, developing, testing, marketing, offering for sale and |
| 100 | selling commercial products and services to third parties. Wherever possible, |
| 101 | you will take reasonable precautions to ensure Works remain accessible only to |
| 102 | ONF Members, and any commercial product or service requiring redistribution of |
| 103 | the Works, of modifications of the Works or of derivatives of the Works must be |
| 104 | made solely in binary machine code form where possible to further this aim. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | Partners-level Members gaining additional insights as a result of accessing and |
| 107 | using the Works for commercial products and services are expected to provide |
| 108 | feedback to and to make contributions to the project for the benefit of both |
| 109 | the project and the general membership. |
| 110 | |
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| 112 | website at: https://www.opennetworking.org/member-listing/. |
| 113 | |
| 114 | 4.1 GRACE PERIOD FOR NON-PARTNER-LEVEL MEMBERS |
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| 121 | interpreting your rights under Section 4. |
| 122 | |
| 123 | 5. RESTRICTIONS. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | By accessing or using the Works, you represent, warrant, and covenant that you |
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| 127 | good standing of ONF. |
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| 131 | redistribute, sell, lease, license, modify or otherwise create any derivative |
| 132 | works of any portion of the Works, or (ii) distribute, deploy, or otherwise |
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| 134 | other similar purpose other than internal use for evaluation and development of |
| 135 | contributions to the code repository for the applicable project maintained by |
| 136 | ONF and non-public, experimental Applications. |
| 137 | |
| 138 | Except as expressly provided herein, you may not (w) reproduce, distribute, |
| 139 | publicly display, or publicly perform any part of the Works, (x) decompile, |
| 140 | reverse engineer, or otherwise access or attempt to access source code not made |
| 141 | available to you in source code form, (y) make or attempt to make any |
| 142 | modification to, or otherwise create any derivative works of, the Works; or (z) |
| 143 | remove, obscure, interfere with or circumvent any feature of the Works, |
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| 145 | notices, security, or access control mechanism. You agree that you will not use |
| 146 | the Works to do anything illegal, including facilitating, promoting, or |
| 147 | otherwise encouraging any illegal activities. |
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| 157 | the Works. |
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| 159 | ANY USE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS IS STRICTLY |
| 160 | PROHIBITED, AND UNLICENSED. |
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| 173 | whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, except for the limited rights |
| 174 | set forth in this License. |
| 175 | |
| 176 | You agree that the form and nature of the Works that ONF provides may change |
| 177 | without prior notice to you and that future versions of the Works may be |
| 178 | incompatible with applications developed using previous versions of the Works. |
| 179 | You agree that ONF may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Works |
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| 183 | names, or other distinctive brand features. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | 7. PURPOSE AND USE. |
| 186 | |
| 187 | You agree that you will not engage in any activity with the Works, including |
| 188 | the development or distribution of an Application that interferes with, |
| 189 | disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the servers, networks, |
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| 194 | responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations |
| 195 | under this License, any applicable third party contract or terms of service, or |
| 196 | any applicable law or regulation, and for the consequences (including any loss |
| 197 | or damage which ONF or any third party may suffer) of any such breach. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | 8. FEEDBACK; CONTRIBUTIONS. |
| 200 | |
| 201 | If you provide ONF with any comments, bug reports, feedback, enhancements, or |
| 202 | modifications proposed or suggested by you for the Works ("Feedback"), such |
| 203 | Feedback will be submitted as a Contribution to the applicable project |
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| 209 | into the Works and any final code base that may be derived from the Works. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | 9. TERMINATION OF THIS LICENSE. |
| 212 | |
| 213 | This License will continue to apply until terminated by either you or ONF as |
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| 215 | your use of the Works. If you cease being a Member in good standing of ONF, |
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| 225 | this License is terminated by ONF as a result of your breach of any provision |
| 226 | of this License, Partner-level Members entitled to the benefits of Section 4 of |
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| 228 | you remain a Partner-level Member in good standing. |
| 229 | |
| 230 | 10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. |
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| 232 | YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE WORKS IS AT YOUR SOLE |
| 233 | RISK AND THAT THE WORKS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT |
| 234 | WARRANTY OF ANY KIND FROM ONF. YOUR USE OF THE WORKS IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION |
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| 243 | QUALITY OR CONSISTENCY OF THE WORKS OR RESULTS OBTAINED THROUGH THEIR USE. |
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| 245 | 11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. |
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| 256 | 12. INDEMNIFICATION. |
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| 258 | To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold |
| 259 | harmless ONF, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, |
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| 264 | commercial product or service you develop using the Works that infringes any |
| 265 | copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual |
| 266 | property right of any person, and (c) any non-compliance by you with this |
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| 269 | 13. CHANGES TO THIS LICENSE. |
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| 271 | ONF may make changes to this License as it distributes new versions of the |
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| 274 | |
| 275 | 14. MISCELLANEOUS TERMS. |
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| 278 | regard to your access and use of the Works, and governs your access and use of |
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