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Drastic Technologies Incorporated
On-line (Freeware) License Agreement
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USE OF THIS SOFTWARE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS SPECIFIED
IN THIS DOCUMENT AND YOUR AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY THEM.

1.  Drastic Technologies Incorporated grants to you a non-exclusive, 
non-sublicensable, license under the terms stated in this agreement to
use DME demo version 1.93 (heirin referred to as the Software) for 
evaluation and trial use purposes only.  You may use the Software on a 
single personal computer system and make as many copies as needed for backup 
and archival purposes.

2. While Drastic Technologies intends to distribute a commercial release
of the Software, Drastic Technologies reserves the right at any time not to 
release a commercial release of the Software or, if released, to alter 
prices, features, specifications, capabilities, functions, licensing terms, 
release dates, general availability or other characteristics of the 
commercial release.

3.  Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in and to the
Software shall remain in Drastic Technologies. You agree to abide by the 
copyright law and all other applicable laws of Canada including, but not 
limited to, export control laws. You acknowledge that the Software in 
source code form remains a confidential trade secret of Drastic Technologies 
and therefore you agree not to modify the Software or attempt to decipher, 
decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Software, except to the 
extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction.

4.  All content accessed through the Software is the property of 
Drastic Technologies and may be protected by applicable copyright law. This 
License gives you no rights to such content.

5.  Drastic Technologies may terminate this License at any time by delivering 
notice to you and you may terminate this License at any time by destroying or 
erasing your copy of the Software.  Upon termination of this License, or in 
any event within thirty (30) days following Drastic Technologies' release of 
a commercial version of the Software, you agree to destroy or erase the 
Software.  In the event of termination, the following sections of this 
License will survive: 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.  This License is personal to you and 
you agree not to assign your rights herein.  This License shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and, 
as to matters affecting copyrights, trademarks and patents, by Canadian 
federal law. This License sets forth the entire agreement between you and 
Drastic Technologies.

6.  Use, duplication or disclosure by the Government is subject to 
restrictions set forth in subparagraphs (a) through (d) of the Commercial 
Computer-Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52.227-19 when applicable, or in 
subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer 
Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013, and in similar clauses in the NASA 
FAR Supplement. 



		WARRANTY:

DRASTIC TECHNOLOGIES HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THIS 
SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY 
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
DRASTIC TECHNOLOGIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,  
CONSEQUENTIAL,INDIRECT OR SIMILAR DAMAGES DUE TO LOSS OF DATA OR ANY OTHER 
REASON, EVEN IF DRASTIC TECHNOLOGIES OR AN AGENT OF DRASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  IN NO EVENT SHALL 
DRASTIC TECHNOLOGIES' LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES EVER EXCEED THE PRICE PAID 
FOR THE LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE CLAIM. 
THE PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND 
PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE.

DRASTIC TECHNOLOGIES WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS SOFTWARE AND WILL NOT ISSUE 
UPDATES TO THIS SOFTWARE.

		COPYRIGHT:

The Drastic MPEG Encoder, DME Reference Manual and all supporting
utilities are Copyright  (c) 1994-1995 by  Drastic Technologies, All Rights
Reserved.   

