Columbia Quoted Speech Attribution Corpus 1.x Software License
for
Educational, Research, and In House Uses
License agreement between the Trustees of Columbia University in the City
of New York, herein referred to as "Us", or "We", and
Institution: ______________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________________
herein referred to as "You", regarding the Columbia Quoted
Speech Attribution Corpus
1.0 software and any future versions
designated 1.x (1.1, etc.). This includes all programs, code and
associated documentation you receive from us and all modified versions
or extensions that you may produce. Herein, this is all referred to
as "the software and its derivatives".
- You agree that you will not sell or otherwise distribute the
software and its derivatives;
- You acknowledge the confidential and valuable nature of the software
and its derivatives. You will not divulge or distribute the
software and its derivatives to third parties, nor allow any part of
the software and its derivatives to be so divulged or distributed,
unless express written permission is given by us. You will instruct
your employees, students or other persons authorized to have access
to the software and its derivatives not to divulge or distribute it
to third parties, unless express written permission is given by us;
- The software and its derivatives will be used only on computers you
control;
- You agree that you will use the software and its derivatives solely
for internal, non-commercial research or academic purposes. Nothing
in this agreement gives you the right to sell, lease, distribute,
transfer, sublicense, or otherwise dispose of the software and its
derivatives, in whole or in part, or to make any commercial use of
it whatsoever;
- Title and copyright of the software and its derivatives will remain
with us and shall at no point transfer to you. You may make copies
only for backup purposes, and they shall contain the original
copyright notices we inserted;
- Official publications such as manuals, technical reports and
articles in journals or conference proceedings that are based
on the ideas of the software or its derivatives will give
proper recognition to the Natural Language Processing Group of
the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University and
the people who worked on it;
- You acknowledge that the software and its derivatives are being
supplied "as-is" without any support services or future updates
or releases. We may or may not make future updates and
releases designated
Columbia Quoted Speech Attribution
Corpus
1.x available to you under this same licensing
agreement, but we are in no way obligated to do so. If you
discover any error in the software and its derivatives, we
encourage you to inform us. We will not necessarily
acknowledge or repair any such errors thus reported;
- We make no warranties or representations of any kind, either express or
implied, as to any matter whatsoever, including merchantability or
fitness for any particular purpose. You agree that we shall not be
held to any liability and you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold
us harmless with respect to any claims by you or a third
party arising from or on account of the use of the software and its
derivatives, regardless of the form of action, whether in contract
or tort, including negligence. In no event will we be liable for
consequential or incidental damages of any nature whatsoever;
- The user of the software and its derivatives will make sure that all
potential users in his/her environment are aware of this agreement
and of the terms for using the provided software and producing
derived software.
- You may not assign or transfer this License Agreement or the
Software and Its Derivatives, without our prior written consent.
- You will comply with all export controls and US Government export
regulations applicable to the Software and Its Derivatives.
- This License Agreement represents the entire Agreement between
You and Us with respect to the Software and Its Derivatives. No
changes to this Agreement will be valid unless made in writing
and signed by You and Us. This Agreement will be governed by
the law of New York State. You may execute this Agreement by
facsimile transmission to Us at +1 (212) 666-0140, Attn: Laura
Furst.
LICENSOR:
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
By (Name and Title): __________________________________________
Date: _________________________________________________________
LICENSEE:
Institution: __________________________________________________
By (Name and Title): __________________________________________
Signature: ____________________________________________________
Date: _________________________________________________________