Chapter 12. CeCILL FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

1. Notice
2. PREAMBLE
3. Article 1 - DEFINITIONS
4. Article 2 - PURPOSE
5. Article 3 - ACCEPTANCE
6. Article 4 - EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM
7. Article 5 - SCOPE OF RIGHTS GRANTED
8. Article 6 - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
9. Article 7 - RELATED SERVICES
10. Article 8 - LIABILITY
11. Article 9 - WARRANTY
12. Article 10 - TERMINATION
13. Article 11 - MISCELLANEOUS
14. Article 12 - NEW VERSIONS OF THE AGREEMENT
15. Article 13 - GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

1. Notice

This Agreement is a Free Software license agreement that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting:

firstly, compliance with the principles governing the distribution of Free Software: access to source code, broad rights granted to users,
secondly, the election of a governing law, French law, with which it is conformant, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to both authors and holders of the economic rights over software.

The authors of the CeCILL license are:

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - CEA, a public scientific, technical and industrial establishment, having its principal place of business at 31-33 rue de la Fédération, 75752 Paris cedex 15, France.

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS, a public scientific and technological establishment, having its principal place of business at 3 rue Michel-Ange 75794 Paris cedex 16, France.

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - INRIA, a public scientific and technological establishment, having its principal place of business at Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay cedex, France.

CeCILL stands for Ce(a) C(nrs) I(nria) L(ogiciel) L(ibre).


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