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- Conditions (terms) for the use of the archive/CD-ROM
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- This document containts copyright, warranty and other information
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- The Peanuts-FTP-Archiv (also known as 'Peanuts'), located at the
- Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, renders accessible documents
- in the archive available for public use by electronic means and on CD-ROM.
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- Such documents are among others News-Contributions, Documents of third party
- or software taken in charge for redistribution of a third party software supplier.
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- The expression "Software" also includes the associated documentation.
- Access to the documents in these archives is free of charge in case of
- non-commercial use.
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- Access to these archives can be made by means of services and information
- systems such as ftp, email, gopher, www and on CD-ROM.
-
- By consulting the archive or copying documents the user acknowledges the
- legality of the following conditions:
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- 1. The documents are subject to different licence and copyright regulations.
- As far as no particular regulation is indicated, the documents
- - mainly the software- are not (available) in the 'Public Domain' .
- The user acknowledges and agrees that the software is copyrighted and
- protected under the copyright law.
- The copyrights remain with the authors respectively with the indicated
- Institutions - also if the software bears no copyright note.
- Existing copyright notes must not be changed or omitted.
- 1.1
- With the purchase of the CD-ROM version, the user obtains no
- additional rights.
- Especially with the use of so known 'shareware' software, the
- user still has to pay the shareware amount to the owner of the
- shareware software.
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- 2. Passing documents to third persons presumes, that these persons
- previously were informed about and are liable for compliance of the
- regulations.
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- 3. The documents (in particular software and its documentation) are not
- guarenteed to be examined; they are unexamined placed at disposal, with
- no warranty for completeness, perfection or suitability for whatever
- purposes.
- It can not be guaranteed that the software is free of 'Viruses','worms',
- however we do out best to detect them and desinfect the software
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- 4. Messages about the occurence of software errors, their removal and the
- realization of proposed updates can not be ensured.
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- 5. Neither the authors nor the Department of Computer Science nor the
- Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich are liable for any direct, indirect,
- special, incidental or consequential damages based on the use
- of the archives and their products.
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- 6. Neither the executive producer, producer, distributor of the CD-ROM, nor
- administrators nor any other person related to the Peanuts-FTP-Archive,
- can be made liable for any damage caused by the usage of documents or
- software available on the archive.
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- 7. Users of the archive are not allowed to produces copies in whole or in
- part of the archive and its structure, especially on CD-ROM or other
- mass medium. The administrators will permit the copying in special cases
- in written form. The active administrators are noted on the web-pages
- of the archive (http://www.peanuts.org/). Users are allowed to produce
- copies for their personal use only.
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- 8. The remedies (laws) of the Federal Republic of Germany are valid, forum
- is Munich.
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- 9. If one of the above mentioned regulations becomes inoperative, the validity
- of the residual conditions (terms) remains unaffected. Invalid conditions
- are automatically replaced by conditions which will come most close the
- the invalid condition.
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- 10.These terms are valid until new terms are published. The active terms
- are always accessable on the archive. (http://www.peanuts.org/ or
- ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/)
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- 11.In case of misunderstandings or translation errors, the german version
- of this document overrides the english version.
-
- Die Peanuts-FTP-Archiv Administratoren,
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- i.a. Bernhard Scholz
-