The agreement grants purchasers a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive worldwide license to use the software embedded in Ledger products solely for product use purposes. The license prohibits copying, modifying, distributing, selling, leasing, or decompiling the software, with a limited exception where decompilation is permitted by applicable law after an unanswered written source code disclosure request to Ledger.
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This provision establishes the scope of the software license accompanying Ledger hardware products and prohibits a range of activities including decompilation and modification. The decompilation exception acknowledges that applicable law (including EU software protection directives) may confer decompilation rights that cannot be contractually waived, subject to the procedural prerequisite of a prior written request to Ledger.
Under this license, purchasers may use the embedded product software only for personal product use and may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or decompile it. An exception applies where decompilation is permitted by applicable law, conditioned on a prior written request to Ledger for source code disclosure remaining unanswered.
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Compare across platforms →"You are hereby granted with a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive and worldwide licence to use the software associated with the Products. This licence is intended solely to enable you to use the Products and to benefit from the related features. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell or lease all or part of the software that is part of it. Similarly, you may not decompile and/or deconstruct or attempt to extract the source code of such software, except where the right to decompile and/or deconstruct is permitted by law, within the limits set by that law, after a written request to Ledger to disclose the necessary source code elements has remained unanswered.Excerpt from Ledger's Terms of Sale
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages EU Directive 2009/24/EC on the legal protection of computer programs, which establishes mandatory decompilation rights that cannot be contractually excluded.
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This provision establishes the scope of the software license accompanying Ledger hardware products and prohibits a range of activities including decompilation and modification. The decompilation exception acknowledges that applicable law (including EU software protection directives) may confer decompilation rights that cannot be contractually waived, subject to the procedural prerequisite of a prior written request to Ledger.
Under this license, purchasers may use the embedded product software only for personal product use and may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or decompile it. An exception applies where decompilation is permitted by applicable law, conditioned on a prior written request to Ledger for source code disclosure remaining unanswered.
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