ONF Member-Only Software License | |
Version 1.0 | |
Nov 2021 | |
This ONF Member-Only Software License (this "License") is entered into by and | |
between Open Networking Foundation ("ONF") and you and/or the entity on whose | |
behalf you are accessing the Works (as defined in Section 1 below) ("you"). | |
This License forms a legally binding contract between you and ONF in relation | |
to your access to and use of the Works. You may not access or use the Works if | |
you do not accept this License. | |
By accessing or using the Works, you hereby agree to the terms of this License. | |
You may not use the Works and may not accept this License if you are a person | |
barred from receiving the Works under the laws of the United States or other | |
countries, including the country from which you access or use the Works. If you | |
are agreeing to be bound by this License on behalf of your employer or other | |
entity, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind | |
your employer or such entity to this License. If you do not have the requisite | |
authority, you may not accept this License or access or use the Works on behalf | |
of your employer or any other entity. You and ONF acknowledge and agree as | |
follows: | |
1. DEFINITIONS. | |
"Source" form shall mean the preferred form for making modifications, including | |
but not limited to software source code, documentation source, and | |
configuration files. | |
"Object" form shall mean any form resulting from mechanical transformation or | |
translation of a Source form, including but not limited to compiled object | |
code, generated documentation, and conversions to other media types. | |
"Works" shall mean the works of authorship, whether in Source or Object form, | |
made available under this License, as indicated by a copyright notice/header | |
file that is included in or attached to the Works. | |
2. BACKGROUND. | |
The purpose of this License is to provide ONF member companies in good standing | |
("Members") with early access to software projects currently in development by | |
ONF prior to their public release, to allow Members to review and test the | |
Works internally for the purpose of making further contributions to the | |
applicable project. Members who are Partner-level Members at the time they | |
first access the Works are additionally permitted under this License to use the | |
Works internally for the purpose of building and developing products and | |
services for commercial purposes as defined in Section 4. However, this | |
License does not permit any Member, regardless of Member level, to redistribute | |
all or any portion of the Works, except as part of a contribution back to the | |
applicable project, in accordance with Section 8 below, or in binary form as | |
provided for Partner-level Members in Section 4 below. You understand and | |
agree that ONF has the sole right to sublicense and distribute a public version | |
of the final code base for the applicable project to third parties under the | |
2.0 version of the Apache License, or other permissive license terms selected | |
by ONF in its sole discretion. | |
The Purpose of this License is to incubate the development of new software | |
projects by providing a framework for ONF Members to access and contribute to | |
the projects while minimizing the potential for forking or misuse of the | |
projects. Nothing in this Background paragraph, however, shall require ONF to | |
take any particular course of action regarding any Works covered by this | |
License. | |
3. LIMITED LICENSE TO ALL MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING. | |
Subject to your complete and ongoing compliance with all the terms and | |
conditions set forth in this License, including without limitation all license | |
limitations and restrictions set forth herein, ONF grants you the following | |
limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license | |
to use, and (where applicable) authorize your employees and contractors | |
performing work on your behalf (but only if such contractors are themselves | |
Members of ONF and accept the terms of this License) to use the Works | |
internally solely in connection with (a) reviewing, testing, modifying and | |
creating derivatives of the Works for the sole purpose of making contributions | |
by you to the code repository for the applicable project maintained by ONF; and | |
(b) building, developing and testing your own applications or components that | |
may interoperate with or incorporate the Works ("Applications") for the | |
purposes of internal evaluation only. | |
4. ADDITIONAL LICENSE TO PARTNER-LEVEL MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING. | |
Each project subject to this License shall be declared by ONF to be in one of | |
two phases: a) Incubation Phase, or b) Partner Commercialization Phase. Each | |
project shall start in the Incubation Phase, and ONF, at its sole discretion, | |
shall determine when each project moves into the Partner Commercialization | |
Phase. Each project shall be documented to be in one of these two phases in | |
the Project's README documentation and can be confirmed by contacting ONF. | |
Once any project moves into the Partner Commercialization Phase, if you are a | |
Partner-level ONF Member in good standing at the time you first access the | |
Works and for the entire period during which you access and use the Works, in | |
addition to the rights granted in Section 3, and subject to your complete and | |
ongoing compliance with all the terms and conditions set forth in this License, | |
including without limitation all license limitations and restrictions set forth | |
herein, ONF grants you the limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, | |
non-sublicensable, revocable license to use, and (where applicable) authorize | |
your employees and contractors performing work on your behalf (but only if such | |
contractors are themselves Members of ONF and accept the terms of this License) | |
to use, test, modify and create derivatives of the Works internally for the | |
purpose of building, developing, testing, marketing, offering for sale and | |
selling commercial products and services to third parties. Wherever possible, | |
you will take reasonable precautions to ensure Works remain accessible only to | |
ONF Members, and any commercial product or service requiring redistribution of | |
the Works, of modifications of the Works or of derivatives of the Works must be | |
made solely in binary machine code form where possible to further this aim. | |
Partners-level Members gaining additional insights as a result of accessing and | |
using the Works for commercial products and services are expected to provide | |
feedback to and to make contributions to the project for the benefit of both | |
the project and the general membership. | |
You may verify your company's Partner-level membership status on the ONF | |
website at: https://www.opennetworking.org/member-listing/. | |
4.1 GRACE PERIOD FOR NON-PARTNER-LEVEL MEMBERS | |
If you are not a Partner-level Member and you wish to benefit from the rights | |
granted to ONF Partners in Section 4, you have a 90-day grace period from the | |
day you first access the Works to upgrade to a Partner-Level ONF Membership. | |
Should you upgrade within this grace period, you will be recognized as if you | |
had been a Partner on the day you first accessed the Works for the purpose of | |
interpreting your rights under Section 4. | |
5. RESTRICTIONS. | |
By accessing or using the Works, you represent, warrant, and covenant that you | |
and/or the entity on whose behalf you are accessing the Works is a Member in | |
good standing of ONF. | |
You acknowledge that, except for the limited rights expressly set forth above, | |
the foregoing licenses do not include any right to, and you agree not to (i) | |
redistribute, sell, lease, license, modify or otherwise create any derivative | |
works of any portion of the Works, or (ii) distribute, deploy, or otherwise | |
utilize the Works or Applications for any public, production, commercial, or | |
other similar purpose other than internal use for evaluation and development of | |
contributions to the code repository for the applicable project maintained by | |
ONF and non-public, experimental Applications. | |
Except as expressly provided herein, you may not (w) reproduce, distribute, | |
publicly display, or publicly perform any part of the Works, (x) decompile, | |
reverse engineer, or otherwise access or attempt to access source code not made | |
available to you in source code form, (y) make or attempt to make any | |
modification to, or otherwise create any derivative works of, the Works; or (z) | |
remove, obscure, interfere with or circumvent any feature of the Works, | |
including without limitation any copyright or other intellectual property | |
notices, security, or access control mechanism. You agree that you will not use | |
the Works to do anything illegal, including facilitating, promoting, or | |
otherwise encouraging any illegal activities. | |
You represent and warrant that the Works will not be shipped, transferred or | |
exported into any country or used in any manner prohibited by the United States | |
Export Administration Act or any other export laws, restrictions or regulations | |
(collectively the "Export Laws"). In addition, if the Works are identified as | |
an export controlled item under the Export Laws, you represent and warrant that | |
you are not a citizen, or otherwise located within, an embargoed nation | |
(including without limitation Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria) | |
and that you are not otherwise prohibited under the Export Laws from receiving | |
the Works. | |
ANY USE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS IS STRICTLY | |
PROHIBITED, AND UNLICENSED. | |
6. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS. | |
The Works are owned by ONF and/or its licensors, and are licensed, not sold, to | |
you. The Works are protected by copyright, trade dress, patent, and trademark | |
laws of the United States and other jurisdictions, international conventions, | |
and all other relevant intellectual property and proprietary rights, and | |
applicable laws (collectively, the "Intellectual Property Rights"). You agree | |
that ONF or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and/or its licensors own | |
all legal right, title and interest in and to the Works, including any and all | |
Intellectual Property Rights. ONF reserves all rights not expressly granted in | |
this License. You do not acquire any right, title or interest to the Works, | |
whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, except for the limited rights | |
set forth in this License. | |
You agree that the form and nature of the Works that ONF provides may change | |
without prior notice to you and that future versions of the Works may be | |
incompatible with applications developed using previous versions of the Works. | |
You agree that ONF may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Works | |
(or any features within the Works) to you or to users generally at ONF's sole | |
discretion, without prior notice to you. Nothing in this License gives you a | |
right to use any of ONF's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain | |
names, or other distinctive brand features. | |
7. PURPOSE AND USE. | |
You agree that you will not engage in any activity with the Works, including | |
the development or distribution of an Application that interferes with, | |
disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the servers, networks, | |
or other properties or services of any third party. You agree that you are | |
solely responsible for (and that ONF has no responsibility to you or to any | |
third party for) any data, content, or resources that you create, transmit or | |
display. You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that ONF has no | |
responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations | |
under this License, any applicable third party contract or terms of service, or | |
any applicable law or regulation, and for the consequences (including any loss | |
or damage which ONF or any third party may suffer) of any such breach. | |
8. FEEDBACK; CONTRIBUTIONS. | |
If you provide ONF with any comments, bug reports, feedback, enhancements, or | |
modifications proposed or suggested by you for the Works ("Feedback"), such | |
Feedback will be submitted as a Contribution to the applicable project | |
maintained by ONF under the terms and conditions of a Contributor License | |
Agreement between you and ONF, is provided on a non-confidential basis | |
(notwithstanding any notice to the contrary you may include in any accompanying | |
communication), and ONF shall have the right to use such Feedback at its | |
discretion, including, but not limited to the incorporation of such Feedback | |
into the Works and any final code base that may be derived from the Works. | |
9. TERMINATION OF THIS LICENSE. | |
This License will continue to apply until terminated by either you or ONF as | |
set out below. If you want to terminate this License, you may do so by ceasing | |
your use of the Works. If you cease being a Member in good standing of ONF, | |
this License will terminate automatically and without further notice to you. | |
ONF may at any time terminate this License: (a) if you have breached any | |
provision of this License; or (b) at ONF's convenience. When this License | |
comes to an end, except as otherwise set forth in this paragraph 9, all of the | |
legal rights, obligations and liabilities that you and ONF have benefited from, | |
been subject to (or which have accrued over time while this License has been in | |
force) or which are expressed to continue indefinitely, shall be unaffected by | |
this cessation, and paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 through 14 shall continue to apply to | |
such rights, obligations and liabilities indefinitely. In addition, unless | |
this License is terminated by ONF as a result of your breach of any provision | |
of this License, Partner-level Members entitled to the benefits of Section 4 of | |
this License shall also retain all rights granted by Section 4 so as long as | |
you remain a Partner-level Member in good standing. | |
10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. | |
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE WORKS IS AT YOUR SOLE | |
RISK AND THAT THE WORKS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT | |
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND FROM ONF. YOUR USE OF THE WORKS IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION | |
AND RISK AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM | |
OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH USE. ONF FURTHER | |
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS | |
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS | |
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. ONF | |
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR | |
FUNCTIONALITY OF THE WORKS, AND WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, VALIDITY, OR | |
COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION OR FEATURES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WORKS, OR THE | |
QUALITY OR CONSISTENCY OF THE WORKS OR RESULTS OBTAINED THROUGH THEIR USE. | |
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. | |
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ONF, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, | |
AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY FOR | |
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES | |
THAT MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER OR NOT ONF OR | |
ITS REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE | |
POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES. IN NO EVENT WILL ONF'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR | |
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR YOUR USE OF THE WORKS EXCEED THE GREATER | |
OF AMOUNTS PAID BY YOU FOR THE WORKS, IF ANY. | |
12. INDEMNIFICATION. | |
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold | |
harmless ONF, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, | |
employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or | |
proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and | |
expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or accruing from | |
(a) your use of the Works, (b) any Application or (for Partner-level Members) | |
commercial product or service you develop using the Works that infringes any | |
copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual | |
property right of any person, and (c) any non-compliance by you with this | |
License or any applicable law or regulation. | |
13. CHANGES TO THIS LICENSE. | |
ONF may make changes to this License as it distributes new versions of the | |
Works. When these changes are made, ONF will make a new version of this License | |
available on the ONF website. | |
14. MISCELLANEOUS TERMS. | |
This License constitutes the entire legal agreement between you and ONF with | |
regard to your access and use of the Works, and governs your access and use of | |
the Works and completely supersedes any prior agreements between you and ONF in | |
relation to the Works, except for any Contributor License Agreement you may | |
have executed with ONF. You agree that if ONF does not exercise or enforce any | |
legal right or remedy which is contained in this License (or which ONF has the | |
benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal | |
waiver of ONF's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be | |
available to ONF. If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on | |
this matter, rules that any provision of this License is invalid, then that | |
provision will be removed from this License without affecting the rest of this | |
License. The remaining provisions of this License will continue to be valid and | |
enforceable so long as this License, as so modified, does not substantially | |
impair the respective expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties. | |
The rights granted in this License may not be assigned or transferred by you | |
without the prior written approval of ONF. You shall not be permitted to | |
delegate your responsibilities or obligations under this License without the | |
prior written approval of ONF. |