Legal Framework and Software License Terms
Apla Contractual Documentation
A set of contractual rules will be offered to the Apla users for acceptance prior to onboarding to the Apla platform. This is to ensure a legally binding nature of smart contracts and to define roles and responsibilities of the Apla users in relation to each other and stakeholders that provide infrastructure services (Apla Consensus ASBL, Apla Luxembourg, Supervised Financial Institutions, Validating Nodes).
The contractual rules include the terms and conditions and policies published on the website www.GitHub.com/AplaProject: Admission Policy, Compliance Policy, Data Protection Policy, Information Security Incidents Procedure, Consensus Protocol, Technical Paper as amended or added from time to time.
Software license terms
The Apla Software includes an integrated development environment with a multi-level system for the management of access rights to data, interfaces, and smart contracts. The technical characteristics of the Apla Software are indicated in the Apla Technical Paper.
Apla users are granted by Apla Luxembourg a permission to deal in the Apla Software without restrictions, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of Apla Software, and to permit persons to whom Apla Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
• the copyright notice of GenesisKernel and EGAAS S.A. and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the software;
• outcomes of using Apla Software cannot be implemented outside of the Apla environment.
THE APLA SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ERROR FREE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE APLA SOFTWARE.
