TNT Personal Use License (PUL)

 

 The TNT PUL allows you to use TNT free of charge for personal

 use only.

 

 If you do not belong to this category, you will have to purchase

 a commercial license. Do not hesitate to contact the authors of

 the program in this matter.

 

TNT PUL terms and conditions

 

 Version 1.6, October 2022

 

 The Authors grant you the right to use the software product as

 defined in § 1 according to the following provisions. If you do not

 agree to all conditions set forth by this license, you may not use

 the product, because only The Authors as the product's owners can

 give you permission to use it.

 

 The PUL allows you to download the TNT binaries for personal use,

 but it does not give you the right to redistribute these binaries.

 So you may not put them onto your own websites or other mirrors.

 

§ 1 Subject of license. "Product", as referred to in this License,

 shall be the binary software package "TNT", which allows for

 calculating and evaluating phylogenetic trees. The Product consists

 of executable files in machine code for the Windows 2000/XP, Linux

 and Mac operating systems as well as other data files as required by

 the executable files at run-time and documentation in electronic

 form. "The Authors", as referred to in this License, shall be Pablo

 A. Goloboff (who can be contacted at pablogolo@csnat.unt.edu.ar),

 James S. Farris (who can be contacted at msl-farr@nrm.se), and

 Kevin C. Nixon (who can be contacted at kcn2@cornell.edu).

 

 § 2 Grant of license. The Authors grant you a personal right to

 install and execute the Product on a Host Computer for Personal Use

 or Educational Use. "Personal Use" requires that you use the product

 on the same Host Computer where you installed it yourself and that no

 more than one client connect to that Host Computer at a time for the

 purpose of running a phylogenetic analysis.

 

 § 3 Reservation of rights. Any use beyond the provisions of § 1 is

 prohibited. The Authors reserve all copyrights and other intellectual

 property rights. This includes, but is not limited to, the right to

 modify, make available or public, rent out, lease, lend or otherwise

 distribute the Product. This does not apply as far as applicable law

 may require it or The Authors grant you additional rights of use in

 a separate license in writing.

 

§ 4 Termination. This License shall be valid indefinitely. The Authors

 may terminate the License only for material causes. In particular,

 such a material cause can be a violation of the usage terms or a

 breach of other essential duties from this contract. After termina_

 tion, you are required to delete and destroy all remaining copies of

 the Product. This includes, but is not limited to, installed copies

 and backups.

 

§ 5 No warranties. Since you have not paid for the use of the Product,

 there is no warranty for it, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

 The Authors provide the Product "as is" without warranty of any kind,

 either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied

 warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

 The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the Product is

 with you. Should it prove defective, you assume the cost of all

 necessary servicing, repair, or correction.

 

§ 6 Publication of results.  You are free to publish in a scientific

 journal any results derived from use of the program.  In such a case,

 you have to (1) acknowledge that the program is being made available

 with the sponsorship of the Willi Hennig Society, and (2) cite the

 paper describing the program (to be submitted soon to "Cladistics, The

International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society" (Goloboff, P., &

Morales, M. 2022. TNT version 1.6, with a graphical interface for

MacOs and Linux, including new routines in parallel).

 

§ 7 Miscellaneous. There are no license terms beyond the written ones

 in this agreement. Amendments of, additions to and the joint

 revocation of this agreement shall require the written form. The same

 shall apply to the preceding written form requirement. Standard

 business conditions of the parties shall not apply. Place of

 performance and legal venue shall be San Miguel de Tucuman, the

 domicile of Pablo A. Goloboff.  Solely Argentinian law shall apply

 to this agreement.