| Digital Negative (DNG) Specification patent license |
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| Adobe is the publisher of the Digital Negative (DNG) Specification |
| describing an image file format for storing camera raw information |
| used in a wide range of hardware and software. Adobe provides the DNG |
| Specification to the public for the purpose of encouraging |
| implementation of this file format in a compliant manner. This |
| document is a patent license granted by Adobe to individuals and |
| organizations that desire to develop, market, and/or distribute |
| hardware and software that reads and/or writes image files compliant |
| with the DNG Specification. |
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| Grant of rights |
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| Subject to the terms below and solely to permit the reading and |
| writing of image files that comply with the DNG Specification, Adobe |
| hereby grants all individuals and organizations the worldwide, |
| royalty-free, nontransferable, nonexclusive right under all Essential |
| Claims to make, have made, use, sell, import, and distribute Compliant |
| Implementations. |
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| “Compliant Implementation” means a portion of a software or hardware |
| product that reads or writes computer files compliant with the DNG |
| Specification. |
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| “DNG Specification” means any version of the Adobe DNG Specification |
| made publicly available by Adobe (for example, version 1.0.0.0 dated |
| September 2004). |
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| “Essential Claim” means a claim of a patent, whenever and wherever |
| issued, that Adobe has the right to license without payment of royalty |
| or other fee that is unavoidably infringed by implementation of the |
| DNG Specification. A claim is unavoidably infringed by the DNG |
| Specification only when it is not possible to avoid infringing when |
| conforming with such specification because there is no technically |
| possible noninfringing alternative for achieving such conformity. |
| Essential Claim does not include a claim that is infringed by |
| implementation of (a) enabling technology that may be necessary to |
| make or use any product or portion thereof that complies with the DNG |
| Specification but is not itself expressly set forth in the DNG |
| Specification (for example, compiler technology and basic operating |
| system technology), (b) technology developed elsewhere and merely |
| incorporated by reference in the DNG Specification, or (c) the |
| implementation of file formats other than DNG. |
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| Revocation |
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| Adobe may revoke the rights granted above to any individual or |
| organizational licensee in the event that such licensee or its |
| affiliates brings any patent action against Adobe or its affiliates |
| related to the reading or writing of files that comply with the DNG |
| Specification. |
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| Any Compliant Implementation distributed under this license must |
| include the following notice displayed in a prominent manner within |
| its source code and documentation: "This product includes DNG |
| technology under license by Adobe Systems Incorporated.” |
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| No warranty |
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| The rights granted herein are provided on an as-is basis without |
| warranty of any kind, including warranty of title or noninfringement. |
| Nothing in this license shall be construed as (a) requiring the |
| maintenance of any patent, (b) a warranty or representation as to the |
| validity or scope of any patent, (c) a warranty or representation that |
| any product or service will be free from infringement of any patent, |
| (d) an agreement to bring or prosecute actions against any infringers |
| of any patent, or (e) conferring any right or license under any patent |
| claim other than Essential Claims. |
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| Reservation of rights |
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| All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. |
