QUANTUM LEAPS QM (QP MODELER) MODEL-BASED DESIGN AND CODE GENERATING SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
These license terms are an agreement between Quantum Leaps and you. Please read them. They apply to the QM model-based design tool as well as to any accompanying documentation and examples.
BY USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THEM, DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE.
- DEFINITIONS
1.1 QM (QP Modeler) is a freeware model-based design (MBD) and automatic code generation tool for real-time embedded software in C or C++ based on hierarchical state machines (UML statecharts) and the event-driven QP Real-Time Embedded Frameworks (RTEFs). QM is available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS hosts.
1.2 QP (Quantum Platform) is a family of lightweight Real-Time Embedded Frameworks (RTEFs) for building reactive embedded software as systems of asynchronous event-driven active objects (actors). The QP family consists of QP/C, QP/C++, and QP-nano frameworks, which are all strictly quality controlled, thoroughly documented, and available in full source code.
The behavior of active objects is specified in QP by means of hierarchical state machines (UML statecharts). The QP frameworks support manual coding of UML state machines in C or C++ as well as Model-Based Design (MBD) and automatic code generation by means of the free QM Model-Based Design tool. The QP framework familiy has been described in the book "Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition" by Miro Samek, (ISBN: 978-0750687065).
1.3 "Qt Toolkit" is a cross-platform application and UI framework. The Qt Toolkit is Copyright (C) Qt Group (Nasdaq Helsinki: QTCOM) and/or its subsidiary(-ies) and other contributors. Qt Toolkit can be used under the Lesser GNU General Public License (LGPL v3), (see: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/lgpl.html).
1.4 "Licensed Software" means the QM executable, documentation, and example models. The Licensed Software expressly does NOT include the source code generated by the QM code generator, which is licensed under the same terms as the underlying QP framework(s).
1.5 "Quantum Leaps Core Market" means the market for event-driven real-time embedded frameworks as well as graphical state machine model-based design and code generating software.
- GRANT OF COPYRIGHT LICENSE
Quantum Leaps grants to you, and you hereby accept, a nonexclusive, nontransferable license to do the following:
2.1 to install and use the Licensed Software for the purpose of designing, developing, documenting, testing, and demonstrating your programs; and
2.2 to create QM models. Any models that you create by QM shall be your Intellectual Property, subject to any rights Quantum Leaps may have in the underlying software, such as the QP frameworks, pursuant to the following Section 3 hereof ("EXCLUSIONS FROM LICENSE GRANT").
- EXCLUSIONS FROM LICENSE GRANT
The Licensed Software is licensed by this Agreement, not sold or given away. This Agreement only grants you some rights to use the software. Quantum Leaps reserves all other rights.
3.1 No right is granted to the code generated by the QM code generator, which is licensed under the same terms as the as the underlying QP framework(s). The QP frameworks are licensed independently and separately from this Agreement.
3.2 No right is granted to trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets or any other Intellectual Property of Quantum Leaps, even if such trademarks are included in the Licensed Software.
3.3 No right is granted to the Qt Toolkit, which is copyright by Qt Group and/or its subsidiary(-ies) and other contributors (see https://www.qt.io) and is used by the Licensed Software under the LGPL v2.1 open source license (see Section 5 "Compliance with LGPL").
3.4 Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to prohibit Quantum Leaps from licensing under different terms from this Agreement any original work that Quantum Leaps otherwise would have a right to license.
- LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE
You may use the Licensed Software only as expressly permitted in this Agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. By accepting this Agreement you agree to the following:
4.1 You may not remove or modify any copyright notes, legal notes, license information, attribution notes, logos, URLs, or e-mail addresses embedded in the source code generated by QM, or in the QM executable and in the QM documentation;
4.2 You may not sell, rent, lease or lend the Licensed Software; and
4.3 You may not use the Licensed Software to create similar stand-alone products within Quantum Leaps' Core Market.
- COMPLIANCE WITH LGPL
The Licensed Software uses the Qt Toolkit under the terms of LGPL. The Licensed Software complies with the LGPL in the following ways:
5.1 The Licensed Software dynamically links to the unmodified Qt Framework, as provided by the Qt Project (see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/lgpl.html) in the pre-compiled binary format.
5.2 All users of the Licensed Software are expressly allowed to use their own versions of the Qt Toolkit libraries as long as they remain interface-compatible with the libraries originally used to build the Licensed Software.
5.3 Every installation of the Licensed Software contains the "qt_lgpl" folder with the copy of the Qt licenses, including the LGPL v2.1, as well as the file index.html, which describes how to download, install, and bulid the Qt Toolkit dynamically linked libraries in the exact version used by the Licensed Software.
5.4 The source code distributions of Qt Toolkit used in the Licensed Software are provided on the Quantum Leaps website, where they are guaranteed to be available for at least three (3) years after the original release date of the Licensed Software.
5.5 The "about box" of the QM application prominently states that this program uses the Qt Toolkit under the terms of LGPL v2.1. Also the QM Manual prominently states that this program uses the Qt Toolkit under the terms of LGPL v2.1.
- DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
BECAUSE THE QM SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, IT IS LICENSED "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 LICENSED SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW SHALL QUANTUM LEAPS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NO LICENSE TO THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS GRANTED HEREUNDER EXCEPT UNDER THIS DISCLAIMER.
- CONTACT INFORMATION
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