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This End-User License Agreement (“Agreement”) is between Tika Logic (“we”, “us”) and the Licensee defined below (“you”). It applies to every IP core we sell, including its source code, testbenches, documentation, scripts and updates (together, the “Core”). By downloading or using a Core, you accept this Agreement.

1. Definitions

  • Licensee. For a Personal & Academic license, the individual who buys it. For a Commercial Project or Enterprise license, the company that buys it, as named at checkout.
  • Authorized Users. For a Personal & Academic license, the Licensee only. For a Commercial Project or Enterprise license, the Licensee’s employees, and contractors working for the Licensee under its control, while they work on the Licensee’s products.
  • Licensed Product. The single end product, including its variants and revisions, that the Licensee names when buying a Commercial Project license. A product family with a different name or purpose is a new product and is not the Licensed Product.
  • Affiliate. Any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Licensee, including parent companies and subsidiaries.
  • Compiled Designs. Bitstreams, netlists embedded in devices, and programmed devices produced by synthesizing the Core.

2. License tiers

When you buy a license, you choose one of these tiers. Your order confirmation states the tier, the Core it applies to, the Licensee and, for a Commercial Project license, the Licensed Product.

Personal & Academic. A non-exclusive, non-transferable license for the Licensee to use the Core for non-commercial purposes: personal projects, learning, teaching and academic research. The Core may not be used in a product or service that is sold, leased or otherwise commercialized.

Commercial Project. A non-exclusive, non-transferable license for the Licensee to use the Core in the Licensed Product. Any number of Authorized Users may use the Core for the Licensed Product; there is no limit on the number of users and no need to register their names. Using the Core in any other product requires another Commercial Project license or an Enterprise license.

Enterprise. A non-exclusive, non-transferable license for the Licensee to use the Core in any number of the Licensee’s products, by any number of Authorized Users.

Affiliates are not covered by a Commercial Project or Enterprise license unless we agree otherwise in writing.

3. Naming the Licensed Product and keeping records

When buying a Commercial Project license, you must name the Licensed Product. If the product’s name changes before release, you may tell us the new name by email; it remains the same Licensed Product as long as its purpose is the same.

Commercial Project and Enterprise Licensees must keep a record of which of their products use the Core (for a Commercial Project license, the Licensed Product), and provide it to us on reasonable request.

4. What you may do

Within your tier, your Authorized Users may:

  • use, study and modify the source code of the Core;
  • integrate the Core, modified or not, into your FPGA or ASIC-prototyping designs;
  • synthesize the Core and distribute the resulting Compiled Designs. Under the Commercial Project and Enterprise tiers, this distribution is royalty-free. Under the Personal & Academic tier, Compiled Designs may only be distributed for non-commercial purposes.

5. What you may not do

You may not:

  • redistribute, publish, sell or sublicense the source code of the Core, in original or modified form, or make it available in a public repository;
  • distribute the Core in any form that allows a third party to recover or reuse its source code, other than as part of a Compiled Design;
  • use a Personal & Academic license for commercial purposes;
  • use a Commercial Project license for any product other than the Licensed Product;
  • let Affiliates or third parties (other than contractors who are Authorized Users) use the Core, unless we agree in writing;
  • remove copyright or license notices from the source files.

6. Updates and support

Every license includes twelve (12) months of updates and support from the purchase date, at the level described for your tier on the licensing page. After that period you may keep using the versions you received. Commercial Project and Enterprise licenses can renew updates and support for another year for 20% of the then-current license price.

7. Ownership

We keep all intellectual property rights in the Core. You own your own designs and any modifications you make, subject to our rights in the Core.

8. No warranty

The Core is provided “as is”. We verify each Core with its testbench and publish synthesis results, but we do not warrant that it is free of defects or that it fits your particular purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Our Refund Policy describes what happens if a documented defect cannot be fixed.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability under this Agreement is limited to the amount you paid for the license concerned. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, including lost profits, lost data or product recalls.

10. Termination

This Agreement ends automatically if you breach it and do not fix the breach within thirty (30) days of our notice. On termination you must stop using the Core and delete all copies of its source code. Compiled Designs distributed before termination under a valid license remain licensed.

11. Governing law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Chile. The courts of Santiago, Chile, have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it.

12. Contact

For questions about this document, write to Tika Logic, Chile, at hello@tikalogic.com.