Dated: 31 December 2002
Pertains to: Kermit 95
communications software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
I. GENERAL TERMS
Kermit 95 software and the accompanying documentation are copyrighted and
protected by law. They may be used only under license. The licensed material
may not be posted in public download areas, submitted to user groups, placed
on CDROMs, included with any product, or redistributed in any other form
without license to do so.
All prices, terms, and conditions are subject to change.
All prices are in US dollars.
Kermit 95 2.1 is available for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows ME, Windows NT (4.0 or later), Windows 2000, and
Windows XP, Intel and compatible PC platforms only, and
IBM OS/2. Kermit 95 does not run under Windows 3.x, Win32s, Windows
CE, or Pocket PC.
Quantities under 100 are available for electronic delivery from
e-academy.com or
in the retail shrink-wrapped package,
which contains the Kermit 95 CDROM (which contains the Kermit 95 software for
all supported platforms plus the Kermit 95 online HTML manual) and the
C-Kermit CDROM. Effective 1 January 2003,
the unit price is $75.00 US, including shipping (USA only).
Quantity discounts are available as follows:
Unit
Quantity Discount Price
1-4 0% 75.00
5-9 5% 71.25
10-24 10% 67.50
25-49 15% 63.75
50+ 20% 60.00
CLICK HERE for the retail order form.
Single copies are also available from other sources such as
Amazon.Com,
retail stores, and
overseas
distributors. Each of these sources sets its own price.
CLICK HERE for the Bulk Right-to-Copy
license order form.
CLICK HERE for the Omnibus
license order form.
(But read the following material first.)
Minimum quantity: 100.
Minimum extension: 100.
The licensee is entitled to make the licensed number of copies of the software
for internal use (or, under terms of Section V,
for customers or clients).
A bulk right-to-copy license consists of:
- A CDROM containing a preregistered copy of the Kermit 95 software
- The Kermit 95 manual, also on CDROM in HTML format
- One copy of the technical reference manual, Using C-Kermit,
in printed book form.
- A Kermit 95 Bulk License form for the number of copies purchased
All users within (or clients of) the licensed organization share the same
registration and serial number. The license covers employees (and in the case
of academic institutions, also students) of the licensed organization,
including contractors during the period of their contract. The Discount
column shows the discount against the single-copy retail price of $75.
Unit
Quantity Discount Price
100-249 86.67% 10.00
250-499 88.67% 8.50
500-999 90.40% 7.20
1000-2499 92.00% 6.00
2500-4999 93.33% 5.00
5000-9999 94.67% 4.00
10000-19999 95.60% 3.30
20000-39999 95.93% 3.05
Any number of copies (100 or more) may be purchased by paying the unit price
per copy appropriate to the range.
"Site" or "unlimited" licenses are available only to academic institutions
(see Section IV). To achieve freedom from copy
counting and license administration, simply purchase sufficient licenses to
cover the maximum expected number of users.
The licensee must assume responsibility of preventing all manner of external
access to the software, including, but not limited to, unauthorized
redistribution of the software in any form by employees, or placing of the
software on file servers, ftp servers, or Web pages that are accessible from
outside the licensed organization.
III.A. GOVERNMENT AND NONPROFIT DISCOUNT
Government agencies (but not for-profit government contractors) and nonprofit
tax-exempt organizations are entitled to a twenty percent (20%) discount on
the final price. This discount applies only to bulk right-to-copy licenses.
III.B. ADDITIONAL DISCOUNTS
Printed, published copies of technical reference manual, Using
C-Kermit, may be ordered in any quantity by bulk-right-to-copy
licensees at a the following discounted prices:
Title Retail Discounted
Technical manual "Using C-Kermit"(*) 52.95 45.95
(*) Note: steeper discounts are available for Using C-Kermit in
larger quantities; see the Using C-Kermit
order form for the discount schedule.
The Government and Nonprofit discount may not be used in combination with this
discount.
III.C. LICENSE UPGRADES
The licensee may increase the size of its license by paying for additional
copies at the rate appropriate for the total number of copies licensed,
including those in the upgrade. The mininum size of an ugrade is 100
copies. For example, if 999 copies were originally
licensed at $7.20 per copy, then 100 to 1500 additional licenses may be
purchased at $6.00 per copy; 1501 to 4000 licenses at $5.00 per copy, and so
on.
III.D. SOFTWARE SUPPORT AND UPGRADES
The licensee is entitled to technical support, software patches, and version
upgrades at no additional cost for one year. After that, these services are
available only to licensees who have paid an annual maintenance fee of
twenty-five percent (25%) of the original license fee, for which bills are
sent around the license anniversary.
The licensed organization must provide technical support to its users, and
may, in turn, obtain technical support from Columbia University through a
designated single point of contact.
If support lapses, and the licensee wishes to renew it, this may be done by:
- purchasing a new license of the desired size, or:
- paying the maintenance fees for all years for which they were not paid,
including the current year.
III.E. SERVER LICENSES
Kermit 95 may be run from a central file server, as long as the number of
concurrent users does not exceed the size of the license, and server-resident
copies of Kermit 95 are not accessible from outside the licensed organization.
In response to frequent queries from system integrators and consultants who
wish to supply Kermit software to their customers who have a variety of
platforms (Windows, DOS, Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, VMS, etc), a new
Omnibus
Right-to-Copy license was created effective 1 January 2002, which is
exactly like the Kermit 95 Bulk Right-to-Copy License
except that it allows any mixture of Kermit 95, C-Kermit, and
MS-DOS Kermit.
CLICK HERE for
the Omnibus License order form.
CLICK HERE for the academic site
license order form.
(But read the following material first.)
An academic site license consists of:
- A CDROM containing a preregistered copy of the Kermit 95 software
- The Kermit 95 manual, also on CDROM
- Five copies of the technical reference manual, Using
C-Kermit, in printed book form.
- A Kermit 95 Academic Site License form
Effective 1 January 2002, there are two kinds of academic
site-licenses:
- Annual billing: A relatively small initial fee, and then annual
maintance fees.
- Lifetime: A somewhat larger one-time payment, granting a license
for the lifetime of the product with full support and upgrades, with no
annual maintenance fees.
Kermit 95 academic site licenses are available at the rates listed below. An
academic site license entitles all students, faculty, and staff at the
licensed institution to individual, non-transferable use of Kermit 95, with no
copy counting required, as long as they are students at or employed by the
institution. End-user technical support must be furnished by the institution.
Technical support to the instition is furnished through a single technical
point of contact with the Kermit Project at Columbia University.
For any single college or university:
Annual Billing Lifetime
First year: $ 2000 5000
Subsequent years: $ 1000 0
For a large university system, such as a statewide system (e.g. all of SUNY):
Annual Billing Lifetime
First year: $ 10000 25000
Subsequent years: $ 5000 0
An annual billing license can be converted to a lifetime license for a
one-time fee of $2000 (single college or university) or $10000 (university
system).
All prices are in US dollars and apply worldwide. Rates are subject to
adjustment. Prior Kermit 95 purchases -- shrink-wrap or bulk -- are not
creditable towards the academic site license.
- Multiple Platforms
- All Kermit 95 platforms -- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, OS/2 -- are covered by the same license, as long
as those platforms are supported by Kermit 95. Support for obsolete platforms
is not guaranteed in new Kermit 95 releases, but the Kermit Project has a
better record than most for supporting them.
- Annual Billing
- Technical support and upgrades are included in the first year's license.
The license remains active in subsequent years only if the annual maintenance
is paid. An active license entitles the institution to continuing
single-point-of-contact technical support and to software upgrades at no
additional cost. If support lapses, and the licensee wishes to renew it, this
may be done by:
- purchasing a new license:
- paying the maintenance fees for all years for which they were not paid,
including the current year.
- Lifetime License
- The license remains active in perpetuity, entitling the institution to
continuing single-point-of-contact technical support and to software upgrades
at no additional cost. Should the Kermit 95 product -- or the Kermit Project
itself -- ever be canceled, the licensee will be furnished with source code.
The institution must assume responsibility for preventing all manner of
external access to the software, including, but not limited to,
redistribution of the software in any form outside the institution by
students, faculty, or staff, or placing of the software on file servers,
ftp servers, or Web pages that are accessible from outside the institution.
Kermit 95 may be purchased under the terms given in sections I, II, and III
(but not IV) for the purposes of resale or redistribution, with the following
additional provisos:
- The given number of licenses is transferred from the supplier to the
customer. The supplier no longer owns those licenses, and the customer
is not entitled to more than that number of copies of the software.
- The supplier must either:
- Purchase a bulk right-to-copy license and provide all technical support
for their customers, or:
- Provide their end users with the full retail shrink-wrapped package.
Bulk licenses are not intended for single-copy retail distribution.
Individual end users must receive the fully documented and supported shrink
wrapped retail package. Redistribution of bulk licenses is appropriate in
a consulting, contracting, bundling, or embedding framework.
If the licensee has purchased shrink-wrapped copies for resale or
redistribution, then each end user registers each individual copy of the
software using the serial number provided. If the lincensee has purchased
a bulk right-to-copy license, then a single serial number and registration
applies to all copies. It is up to the buyer of the bulk license to specify
to whom it is to be registered.
Christine M. Gianone, Business Manager
The Kermit Project, Columbia University
612 West 115th Street
New York NY 10025-7799
USA
Fax: +1 (212) 662-6442
email: [email protected]
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31 December 2002