Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT)

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
ACADEMIC OR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
NONCOMMERCIAL RESEARCH USE ONLY


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This is a license agreement ("Agreement") between your academic institution or non-profit organization or yourself (called "Licensee" or "you" in this Agreement) and Carnegie Mellon University (called "Licensor" in this Agreement). All rights not specifically granted to you in this Agreement are reserved to Licensor.

ATTRIBUTION IN PUBLICATIONS: All publications (including any reports or presentations) that include data generated by using the Software (as defined below), discuss work done with the Software, any tutors created with the Software and/or any studies/experiments done with such tutors shall include an acknowledgement and attribution by citing the following publication:

Aleven, V., McLaren, B. M., Sewall, J., & Koedinger, K. R. (2009). Example-tracing tutors: A new paradigm for intelligent tutoring systems. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

This paper is downloadable from http://ctat.pact.cs.cmu.edu/index.php?id=pubs"

RESERVATION OF OWNERSHIP AND GRANT OF LICENSE: Licensor retains exclusive ownership of any copy of the Software licensed under this Agreement and hereby grants to Licensee a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Software for noncommercial research purposes, without the right to sublicense, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Licensee agrees to use reasonable effort to protect the Software from unauthorized use, reproduction, distribution, or publication. As used in this Agreement, the term "Software" means the actual copy of all or any portion of code for program routines made accessible to Licensee by Licensor pursuant to this Agreement, inclusive of backups, updates, or merged copies permitted hereunder or subsequently supplied by Licensor. It includes file structures, programming instructions, user interfaces and screen formats and sequences as well as any and all documentation and instructions related to it.

CONFIDENTIALITY: Licensee acknowledges that the Software provided under this Agreement is proprietary to Licensor, and as such, Licensee agrees to receive all such materials in confidence and use the Software only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

COPYRIGHT: The Software is owned by Licensor and is protected by United States copyright laws and applicable international treaties and/or conventions.

PERMITTED USES:  The Software may be used for your own noncommercial research purposes. You understand and agree that Licensor is not obligated to implement any suggestions and/or feedback you might provide regarding the Software, but to the extent Licensor does so, you are not entitled to any compensation related thereto.

You are not being provided with access or rights to source code under this Agreement.

BACKUPS: If Licensee is an organization, it may make that number of copies of the Software necessary for internal use at a single site within its organization provided that all information appearing in or on the original labels, including the copyright and trademark notices are copied onto the labels of the copies.

USES NOT PERMITTED: You may not: modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, create derivative works based on, or copy (except as permitted under the "Backups" section above) the Software. Licensee has not been granted any trademark license as part of this Agreement and may not use the name or mark "Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT)," "Carnegie Mellon" or any renditions thereof without the prior written permission of Licensor.

You may not sell, rent, lease, sublicense, lend, time-share or transfer, in whole or in part, or provide third parties access to, prior or present versions (or any parts thereof) of the Software.

ASSIGNMENT: You may not assign this Agreement or your rights hereunder without the prior written consent of Licensor. Any attempted assignment without such consent shall be null and void.

TERM: The term of the license granted by this Agreement is from Licensee's acceptance of this Agreement by clicking "I Agree" below until terminated as provided below.

The Agreement automatically terminates without notice if you fail to comply with any provision of this Agreement. Licensee may terminate this Agreement by ceasing using the Software. Upon any termination of this Agreement, Licensee will delete any and all copies of the Software. The parties hereby agree that all provisions which operate to protect the proprietary rights of Licensor shall remain in force should breach occur and that the obligation of confidentiality described in this Agreement is binding in perpetuity and, as such, survives the term of the Agreement.

FEE: Provided Licensee abides completely by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, there is no fee due to Carnegie Mellon for Licensee's use of the Software in accordance with this Agreement.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF PERFORMANCE OR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE OR OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. LICENSEE BEARS ALL RISK RELATING TO QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE AND RELATED MATERIALS.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE: No Software support or training by the Licensor is provided as part of this Agreement.

EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: To the maximum extent
permitted under applicable law, Licensor shall not be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages or lost profits related to Licensee's use of and/or inability to use the Software, even if Licensor is advised of the possibility of such damage.

EXPORT REGULATION: Licensee agrees to comply with any and all applicable U.S. export control laws, regulations, and/or other laws related to embargoes and sanction programs administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

SEVERABILITY: If any provision(s) of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

NO IMPLIED WAIVERS: No failure or delay by Licensor in enforcing any right or remedy under this Agreement shall be construed as a waiver of any future or other exercise of such right or remedy by Licensor.

GOVERNING LAW: This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania without reference to conflict of laws principles. The parties hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction of the courts of this County and waive their rights to venue outside of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT AND AMENDMENTS: This Agreement constitutes the sole and entire agreement of the parties as to the matter set forth herein and supersedes any previous agreements, understandings, and arrangements between the parties relating hereto.