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1. Acceptance: By sending the request to automatically receive a Matlab implementation and description of the channel model the customer accepts the subsequent terms of a licence.

2. Proprietary Program/Copyright/Patent Rights: The program „land mobile multipath channel model“ (hereinafter called „program“) is proprietary of the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.) and is protected by the German Copyright Act. Furthermore the program is protected by several patents. A transgression of the rights of use expressly granted hereinafter constitutes a penal relevant violation of the German Copyright Act as well as the German Patent Act and will in each case be prosecuted.

3. Granting of a non-commercial licence: The program is made available to the customer with a description free of charge and only for non-commercial research and scientific purposes. With acceptance of these terms of a licence the customer receives - without the right to grant sublicenses - a non exclusive, non transferable right to use the program for non-commercial research and scientific purposes. Any use of the program for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden, in particular the implementation of the program in a hardware channel simulator, in a commercial simulation software or in a commercial hardware or software receiver.

4. Transfer to third persons: It is strictly forbidden to make the program or the description available to third parties, whether free of charge or against payment. The customer has to take all necessary and reasonable precautions to prevent that third parties gain access to the program or the description.

5. Decompile and program modification: The retranslation of the delivered program code in other forms of code (decompile) as well as any other form of Reverse-Engineering or modification of the program by the customer is prohibited. Accordingly any modification of the source code made available to the customer is strictly forbidden.

6. Exclusion of warranty: In terms of the fact that the program is made available to the customer free of charge and only for non-commercial purposes, guarantee claims no matter of what kind are excluded. In particular it is not warranted that the program is useful for the application areas desired by the customer. Furthermore there is no warranty assumed for the correctness, usability and completeness of the description. Finally it is not guaranteed that the program does not infringe upon third party property rights.

7. Limitation of liability: For damages to other software, data media and/or computer installations etc. of the customer arising by the use of the program as well as consequential damages or losses through this, the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) is liable only in cases of intended or gross negligent causation of the defect causal for the damage by its employees or statutory agents. In case the customer is businessman according to § 14 of the German Civil Code, beyond the limitation of liability according to the preceding sentence the liability is limited to predictable, typically appearing damages and furthermore the liability for gross negligence of the employees of the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) is excluded, with the exception of gross negligence of an executive employee.

8. Appliable Law/Place of Jurisdiction: German law applies to the contractual relationship between the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) and the customer concerning the demonstration licence according to these terms of a licence. Place of jurisdiction for all disagreements arising out of this contractual relationship is Cologne, Germany.

In case of any questions please contact:

Dr. Alexander Steingaß, phone: +49 8153 28 2864, email: alexander.steingass@dlr.de
Dr. Andreas Lehner, phone: +49 8153 28 2804, email: andreas.lehner@dlr.de