Open Source Software

Our product‘s software contains components that are licensed as Open Source Software. You may find the affected components and the associated license conditions under the menu item "information licenses“. The respective holders of rights grant you a non-exclusive right to use the Open Source Software in compliance with the applicable license terms.

Our General Terms of Delivery and Payment (available at www.fronius.com) apply only to the components that are not licensed as Open Source Software. You may enter into a license agreement with the holders of rights of the respective Open Source Software at your own discretion and at your own risk.

In so far as software or components owned by us is linked with a library licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) you are permitted – as an exception to our above mentioned GTDP - to modify the software or components owned by us for your own use and to reverse engineer the software or components for debugging such modifications. However, you are not permitted to disseminate any information resulting from such reverse engineering or to disseminate the modified software or components to third parties. In such case the warranty for modified software or components shall be excluded.

 

Special Disclaimer for the GPL- and LGPL-Components

Between you and the holders of rights, the following disclaimer applies to the GPL and LGPL components:

"This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. “

Please note that for software or components, which are licensed under different Open Source Licenses, different disclaimers may be applicable, which can be found in the respective license text.


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  1. This product contains software components that are licensed by the holder of the rights as Free Software, or Open Source Software, under GNU General Public License, Versions 2 and 3, or GNU Lesser General Public License, Versions 2.1 and 3.0, respectively. The source code for these software components can be obtained from us on a data carrier (CD-ROM, DVD or USB stick) by submitting a request to our customer service department at the following address within three years after delivery of the product or as long as we offer spare parts or customer support for this product model,


FRONIUS INTERNATIONAL GmbH

Froniusstraße 1

4643 Pettenbach, AUSTRIA


web http://www.fronius.com

phone +43 (7242) 241-0

fax +43 (7242) 241-950000

e-mail welding.techsupport@fronius.com


please provide the following product information


[Name]

[Serial number]

[Date of delivery]


and transfer 5 euros to the following account

Oberbank Wels, IBAN AT39 1513 0002 8107 1100 BIC OBKLAT2L

to cover our costs of providing the data carrier and shipping it.


  1. If our customer service receives within three years after our date of delivery a request at the above mentioned address, we will grant you the opportunity that you may flash your own modified GPL and / or LGPL software (e.g. modified kernel versions or a modified glibc) on our product. It is a complex process to grant you this opportunity. Therefore you shall bear our resulting costs. We will comply with your request, as soon as we receive, your device at the following address

FRONIUS INTERNATIONAL GmbH

Günter-Fronius-Straße 1,

A-4600 Thalheim bei Wels, AUSTRIA


and, your down payment of EUR 3.000,00 to our above mentioned account. Our rendered services will be invoiced after completion of the work and we will offset the invoice amount with your received down payment.