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- The RAR Archiver
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- License for use and distribution
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- The RAR archiver is distributes as try-before-you-buy. This means:
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- 1. All copyrights to RAR are exclusively owned by the author
- - Eugene Roshal.
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- 2. Anyone may use this software during a test period of 40
- days. Following this test period of 40 days or less, if
- you wish to continue to use RAR, you MUST register.
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- 3. There are 5 basic types of licenses issued for RAR, these are:
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- a. A single computer USAGE license. The user purchases ONE license
- to USE the RAR archiver on ONE computer.
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- b. A Multiple USAGE license. The user purchases a number of USAGE
- licenses for use, by the purchaser, the purchaser's employees or
- accredited agents, on the same number of computers.
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- c. A SITE USAGE license. The user purchases a single USAGE license,
- authorising the USE of RAR, by the purchaser, the purchaser's
- employees or accredited agents, on an unlimited number of computers
- at the same physical SITE location. This SITE location would
- normally be defined as a single building, but could be considered
- to be a number of buildings within the same, general, geographical
- location, such as an industrial estate or small town.
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- d. A CORPORATE, NATIONAL or INTERNATIONAL USAGE license. The user
- purchases a single USAGE license, authorising the USE of RAR, by
- the purchaser, the purchaser's employees or accredited agents, on
- an unlimited number of computers, regardless of location, but
- owned or under the control of the purchaser.
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- e. A CORPORATE, RESALE license. The user purchases a license for
- a limited and specified number of copies for the purpose of
- reselling individual licenses to a third party with RAR being
- included as a part of another application or system. This license
- does NOT allow the direct reselling of RAR as a stand-alone
- product.
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- Once registered, the user is granted a non-exclusive license to use
- RAR on as many computers as defined by the licensing terms above
- according to the number of licenses purchased, for any legal purpose.
- The registered RAR software may not be rented or leased, but may be
- permanently transferred, in it's entirety, if the person receiving it
- agrees to the terms of this license. If the software is an update,
- the transfer must include the update and all previous versions.
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- 4. The RAR/WinRAR unregistered trial version may be freely distributed,
- with exceptions noted below, provided the distribution package is not
- modified in any way.
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- a. No person or company may distribute separate parts of the package
- with the exception of the UnRAR components, without written
- permission of the copyright owner.
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- b. The RAR/WinRAR unregistered trial version may not be distributed
- inside of any other software package without written permission
- of the copyright owner.
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- c. Hacks/crack, keys or key generators may not be included on the
- same distribution.
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- 5. To register you must complete the registration form and send
- it, with registration fee, to one of the authorized
- registration sites, see RAR_SITE.TXT.
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- 6. THE RAR ARCHIVER IS DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". NO WARRANTY OF ANY
- KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR THE AGENTS OF THE AUTHOR WILL BE LIABLE
- FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS
- WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE.
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- 7. There are NO additional license fees, apart from the cost of
- registration, associated with the creation and distribution of RAR
- archives, volumes, self-extracting archives or self-extracting
- volumes. Legally registered owners may use their copies of RAR to
- produce archives and self-extracting archives and to distribute those
- archives free of any additional RAR royalties.
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- 8. You may not use, copy, emulate, clone, rent, lease, sell, modify,
- decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the
- licensed program, or any subset of the licensed program, except as
- provided for in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall
- result in immediate and automatic termination of this license and
- may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution.
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- Neither RAR binary code, WinRAR binary code, UnRAR source or UnRAR
- binary code may be used or reverse engineered to re-create the RAR
- compression algorithm, which is proprietary, without written
- permission of the author.
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- RAR and WinRAR keyfiles may not be distributed, except as stated
- in item 3) above, outside of the area of legal control of the
- person or persons who purchased the original license, without
- written permission of the copyright holder.
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- All rights not expressly granted here are reserved by Eugene Roshal.
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- 9. Installing and using RAR signifies acceptance of these terms
- and conditions of the license.
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- 10. If you do not agree with the terms of this license you must remove
- RAR files from your storage devices and cease to use the product.
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- Thank you for using the original RAR.
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- Eugene Roshal
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