NIRS-KIT License
Copyright (c) 2019, Xin Hou, Zong Zhang, and Chaozhe Zhu.
All rights reserved.
1- Preface
NIRS-KIT was developed by Xin Hou, Zong Zhang and Chaozhe Zhu at State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China.
NIRS-KIT is only for academic use! Any unauthorized commercial use is prohibited!
The aim of this license is to lay down the conditions enabling you to use, modify and circulate the SOFTWARE. However, the authors retain property rights and the use of all ancillary rights.
2- Definitions
The SOFTWARE is defined as all successive versions of NIRS-KIT software and their documentation that have been developed by the authors.
NIRS-KIT DERIVED SOFTWARE is defined as all or part of the SOFTWARE that you have modified and/or translated and/or adapted.
NIRS-KIT COMPOSITE SOFTWARE is defined as all or a part of the SOFTWARE that you have interfaced with the software, an application package or a toolbox of which you are the owner or entitled beneficiary.
3- Object and conditions of the SOFTWARE license
1. You are authorized free of charge to use the SOFTWARE source and/or object code, without restriction.
2. You are authorized free of charge to circulate and distribute the SOFTWARE source and/or object code.
3. You are authorized free of charge, to reproduce the SOFTWARE source and/or object code on any present and future support, without restriction, providing the following reference appears in all the copies: NIRS-KIT © Hou-Zhang-Zhu.
4. You are authorized free of charge to correct any bugs, carry out any modifications required for the porting of the SOFTWARE and to carry out any usual functional modification or correction, providing you insert a patch file or you indicate by any other equivalent means the nature and date of the modification or the correction, on the corresponding file(s) of the SOFTWARE.
4- Object and conditions of the DERIVED SOFTWARE license
1. You are authorized free of charge to reproduce and modify and/or translate and/or adapt all or part of the source and/or the object code of the SOFTWARE, providing a patch file indicating the date and the nature of the modification and/or the translation and/or the adaptation and the name of their author in the SOFTWARE file(s) concerned is inserted. The SOFTWARE thus modified is defined as DERIVED SOFTWARE. You are authorized free of charge to use the source and/or object code of the SOFTWARE, without restriction, providing the following reference appears in all the copies: NIRS-KIT © Hou-Zhang-Zhu.
2. You are authorized free of charge to use the SOFTWARE source and/or object code modified according to article 4-1) above, without restriction, providing the following reference appears in all the copies: " NIRS-KIT © Hou-Zhang-Zhu.".
3. You are authorized free of charge to circulate and distribute for no charge, for non-commercial purposes the source and/or object code of DERIVED SOFTWARE on any present and future support, providing:
* the reference " NIRS-KIT © Hou-Zhang-Zhu " is prominently mentioned;
* the DERIVED SOFTWARE is distributed under the present license;
* the recipients of the distribution can access the SOFTWARE code source;
* the DERIVED SOFTWARE is distributed under a name other than NIRS-KIT.
4. Any commercial use or circulation of the DERIVED SOFTWARE shall have been previously authorized by the authors-Hou, Zhang and Zhu.
5- Object and conditions of the license concerning COMPOSITE SOFTWARE
1. You are authorized to reproduce and interface all or part of the SOFTWARE with all or part of other software, application packages or toolboxes of which you are the owner or entitled beneficiary in order to obtain COMPOSITE SOFTWARE.
2. You are authorized free of charge, to use the SOFTWARE source and/or object code included in the COMPOSITE SOFTWARE, without restriction, providing the following statement appears in all the copies: "composite software using NIRS-KIT © Hou-Zhang-Zhu functionality".
3. You are authorized free of charge, to circulate and distribute for no charge, for purposes other than commercial, the source and/or object code of COMPOSITE SOFTWARE on any present and future support, providing:
* the following reference is prominently mentioned: "composite software using NIRS-KIT © Hou-Zhang-Zhu functionality ";
* the SOFTWARE included in COMPOSITE SOFTWARE is distributed under the present license;
* recipients of the distribution have access to the SOFTWARE source code;
* the COMPOSITE SOFTWARE is distributed under a name other than NIRS-KIT.
4. Any commercial use or distribution of COMPOSITE SOFTWARE shall have been previously authorized by the authors-Hou, Zhang and Zhu.
6- Limitation of the warranty
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
