ZIB promotes the transfer of mathematics into industrial applications and is interested in commercial applications of SoPlex.
If you are not doing resarch or education or want to make or save money with SoPlex you need a commercial license. We give the license, you pay for it. The amount is completely negotiable and depending on what you want to do with SoPlex, which rights you want and what you are willing to tell us about it.
ZIB is an academic institution and not a commercial company. We do not offer maintenance or support, but we make SoPlex available for commercial applications along the following general licensing terms. For further information, please contact koch@zib.de.
<Your company> obtains a perpetual and non exclusive license to use SoPlex and to distribute SoPlex in added value products. In particular, ZIB guarantees <your company> against any legal action about ownership rights. <Your company> does not have the right to distribute a general purpose LP library or an LP solver based on SoPlex. ZIB's own rights to use and distribute SoPlex are not affected by this agreement.
ZIB takes no guarantee for the function of SoPlex, and no liability for any consequences that the use of SoPlex in products of <your company> or at <your company> itself may have.
<Your company> has the right to distribute all or parts of SoPlex in its original or in modified form in its products.
SoPlex is sold ``as is'', no release is provided.
ZIB does neither guarantee maintenance, nor support, nor bug fixing.
License fees have to be negotiated.
Any disputes arising hereunder will be settled before a competent Berlin court of law.