For example, the clause below allows the company to “suspend or terminate, at its own discretion, at any time and for any reason, to that licence and the rights granted… We publish and maintain a wide range of legal documentation for software licensing. We have listed the main documents below, with links to website-contracts.co.uk and Docular: our e-commerce sites. While website-contracts.co.uk provides downloadable MS Word documents, Docular lets you edit your document online before downloading it. A software license is an authorization by the owners of a software product that allows a customer to use the product. In the software industry, products are generally licensed, rather than sold – people who pay for the software rarely “own” directly. On the contrary, they acquire, under certain conditions, a license for the use of the product. Many software licensing agreement authors confuse compensation rules with risk allocation rules. Compensation clauses relate to a right or action of third parties against one of the parties. The “risk allocation” section refers to the liability of the parties against each other (unlike the actions of third parties covered by the compensation provisions).
Since the rights of third parties are not subject to direct control by the contracting parties, the damages resulting from these rights should be dealt with separately and not by the risk allocation provisions. Leave your confidentiality provision properly written! The confidentiality provision should apply to both parties and consider the right of one party to induce the other party to keep sensitive information relating to business or business secrecy confidential. On the other hand, the confidentiality of software and documentation is better taken into account in the provisions relating to usage restrictions. As noted above, the main purpose of an EEA is to license an application to an end-user. For this reason, all end-user licensing agreements should have a section expressly stating that a license is granted. “Licence” refers to the license that the donor issues to the licensee for the use of the software and documentation, in accordance with the terms of this agreement. Effects of termination – What happens after the termination of the contract? An effective and comprehensive CLA will ensure that anyone using your desktop or mobile app is aware that the user`s rights go until you keep control of the software and who uses it. If you don`t license, you won`t need a CLA. If you grant a license, you can have one or both of these agreements.
For the software developer, it is important to retain the rights to terminate the license in case of usage violation or other problems.