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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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The license granted to you for the App is a limited, non-transferable license to use the App on Mac product that you own or control and as permitted by the Usage Rules that are part of the terms of service in the Mac App Store.
User grants to Stripe...a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use that Feedback for any purpose.
Teladoc Health grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable, non-transferable license to use the Platforms in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
"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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