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The AVC patent portfolio license is expressly limited to non-commercial or personal use; use that generates remuneration falls outside the licensed scope.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment of a longer AVC license notice. The primary proposition is the personal/non-remuneration scope of the patent portfolio license. Full legal effect depends on adjacent clauses.
Readers may rely on the AVC patent portfolio license only for personal use or for uses in which they do not receive remuneration.
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Tinder grants you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, revocable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use our Services for purposes as intended by Tinder and permitted by these Terms and applicable laws.
Wise grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, royalty-free limited license to access and/or make personal use of the Wise Materials and Services.
You hereby grant ActiveCampaign a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, and sub-licensable license to use your name and any of your trade names, trademarks, logos and other proprietary marks or words pursuant to this Section.
"THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL USE OF A CONSUMER OR OTHER USES IN WHICH IT DOES NOT RECEIVE REMUNERATION...Excerpt from Google's Chrome Terms of Service
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The AVC patent portfolio license is expressly limited to non-commercial or personal use; use that generates remuneration falls outside the licensed scope.
Readers may rely on the AVC patent portfolio license only for personal use or for uses in which they do not receive remuneration.
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