Yann Collet | 4ded9e5 | 2016-08-30 10:04:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Additional Grant of Patent Rights Version 2 |
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| 3 | "Software" means the Zstandard software distributed by Facebook, Inc. |
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| 5 | Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") hereby grants to each recipient of the Software |
| 6 | ("you") a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable |
| 7 | (subject to the termination provision below) license under any Necessary |
| 8 | Claims, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise |
| 9 | transfer the Software. For avoidance of doubt, no license is granted under |
| 10 | Facebook’s rights in any patent claims that are infringed by (i) modifications |
| 11 | to the Software made by you or any third party or (ii) the Software in |
| 12 | combination with any software or other technology. |
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| 14 | The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, |
| 15 | if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate |
| 16 | directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent |
| 17 | Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate |
| 18 | affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or |
| 19 | in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of |
| 20 | its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating |
| 21 | to the Software. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its |
| 22 | subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent |
| 23 | infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a |
| 24 | patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is |
| 25 | unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate |
| 26 | under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim. |
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| 28 | A "Necessary Claim" is a claim of a patent owned by Facebook that is |
| 29 | necessarily infringed by the Software standing alone. |
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| 31 | A "Patent Assertion" is any lawsuit or other action alleging direct, indirect, |
| 32 | or contributory infringement or inducement to infringe any patent, including a |
| 33 | cross-claim or counterclaim. |