Software License Agreement
For Personal Online Database
(Please carefully read the agreement
in full before you install and use the software)
Copyright (C) 2000 Mingyi Liu. All Rights Reserved
Definition: "the software" "this software" "the program" "this program" below all refer to the Personal Online Database program and components in the Personal Online Database software package. "the author" and "I", refer to Mingyi Liu, the author of Personal Online Database.
By using this software you agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement as follows:
Grant of license
The following license agreement applies to registered individual version of the program. For license and registration for evaluation copy of the program, please refer to the "evaluation license" section below. This software is being licensed to you by Mingyi Liu on an "AS IS" basis. You may install and test this program on no more than two computers. You may not distribute any component of the licensed software package to others on any media and/or through any network. No one other than you yourself is granted the license to use the copy of the software registered to you. Additionally, at any time only one computer may provide any kind of service rendered by your copy or copies of the registered software over any type of network to any group of users for any type of usage.
If you intend to use more than one computer to provide service rendered by the software, you must obtain a group license which allows you to use more than one computer to provide such service. A registered group license will also cost more than an individual license. Other than these differences a registered group license is identical to registered individual license.
You may not decompile, or modify any component of the software package in any way without the written consent of the author. You may not rent, lease or sublicense the software. You may not export the software into any country prohibited by the United States Export Administration Act and the regulations thereunder.
Governing Law
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Iowa and U.S. federal law.
Disclaimer of Warranty
THIS SOFTWARE AND ANY OF THE ACCOMPANYING FILES AND COMPONENTS ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OR MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. As the software user, you must assume the entire risk of using the program. In no case should the author, Mingyi Liu or any other person or company, be held responsible for any loss or damage to any data or property or anything else directly or indirectly resulted from the usage of this software. Any liability of the seller or author is limited to product replacement or refund of purchase price at request after any software defect is detected and proven.
The following license applies to the evaluation version of Personal Online Database program. For license of the registered version, please refer to the license agreement above.
This software is a shareware. Subject to the terms below, you are licensed to use this software solely for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 20 days. If you use this software after the 20 day evaluation period a registration fee of U.S. $29 for non-commerical usage or U.S. $79 for commercial usage is required. Commercial usage is defined as any kind of usage that includes any service by this software in any activity that also involves monetary transactions. For example, using this software to produce an online catalogue database to showcase your product, even if you do not use this software to actually sell them or receive payment for them and/or you are not a registered business, this usage is defined as commercial usage. Payments must be in US dollars drawn on a US bank, and should be sent to 421 Hawkeye Court, Iowa City, IA52246, USA. Please do not send cash. A more convenient way is to send in your payment through paypal international online payment services. My paypal account e-mail address is mingyiliu@yahoo.com (Read here for how to pay registration fee with paypal and the advantages of using paypal). When payment is received you will receive through e-mail the instructions on how to enable the software. You must abide by the non-distribution restrictions once you registered (see below the paragraph in capital letters for the restriction). Please include your e-mail address with your payment. You email address will not be disclosed to any other person or company for any purpose. It will be used exclusively for receiving information about newer version that has bugs fixed or features improved.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ONCE YOU REGISTER, YOU AGREE NOT TO DISTRIBUTE OR DISCLOSE ANY REGISTRATION INSTRUCTION AND/OR ANY COMPONENT OF THE REGISTERED SOFTWARE PACKAGE THROUGH ANY MEDIA OR NETWORK TO ANY PERSON OR COMPANY OR OTHER THIRD PARTY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THIS CONDITION IS A DIRECT VIOLATION OF U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAWS AND SUCH ACTIONS MAY BE SUBJECT TO PROCECUTION AND PUNISHMENT.
Unregistered usage of this software after the 20-day evaluation period is a violation of U.S. and international copyright laws. If you intend to use more than one computer to provide service rendered by the software, you must obtain a group license.
You may not use unregistered evaluation copy of the software on more than one computer that provides service through any type of network.
Distribution of Evaluation Version
You may make copies of the evaluation version of the software and/or distribute them through any media to anyone. You may NOT modify any component of the evaluation version of the software package including any type of documentation including license agreement. You may not charge for distribution of the software and you may not resell the software.
You may not decompile, or modify any component of the software package in any way without the written consent of the author. You may not rent, lease or sublicense the software. You may not export the software into any country prohibited by the United States Export Administration Act and the regulations thereunder.
Governing Law
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Iowa and U.S. federal law.
Disclaimer of Warranty
THIS SOFTWARE AND ANY OF THE ACCOMPANYING FILES AND COMPONENTS ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OR MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. As the software user, you must assume the entire risk of using the program. In no case should the author, Mingyi Liu or any other person or company, be held responsible for any loss or damage to any data or property or anything else directly or indirectly resulted from the usage of this software. Any liability of the seller or author is limited to product replacement or refund of purchase price at request after any software defect is detected and proven.
How do I pay with paypal?
Paypal uses e-mail address as the "account number" for sending and
receiving payments. Making payments with them is almost as easy as sending e-mails.
My paypal account e-mail address is mingyiliu@yahoo.com. If you do not yet have
a paypal account, you may sign up for their service for free (refer to their
web site for details) and receive $5 new account bonus. You may also put my
e-mail address mingyiliu@yahoo.com as referral address when you sign up for
their service, after which paypal will pay me $5 for referral bonus. You can
pay me $5 less for your POD registration fee once I received the $5 referral
bonus. In effect, by using paypal, POD costs you roughly $10 less (international
users may be accessed a transaction fee. Please refer to www.paypal.com
for exact charge), and you can pay instantly and internationally without the
hustle of the currency exchange and wire transfer to U.S. bank. Please
remember that after you send me the payments through paypal, please
also send me an e-mail at mingyiliu@yahoo.com to notify me of the e-mail address
you prefer to receive my correspondence about the payment, registration instructions,
etc.