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PATENTS

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LICENSE AND ACCESS

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPLAINTS

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RISK OF LOSS

All purchases of physical items from Scan Dimension are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.

OTHER BUSINESSES

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DISPUTES

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There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages) and must follow the terms of these Conditions of Use as a court would.

To begin an arbitration proceeding, you must send a letter requesting arbitration and describing your claim to our registered agent Corporation Service Company, GLOBAL SCANNING A/S | SVANEVANG 2 | DK-3450 ALLERØD | DENMARK.

The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules, including the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes. The AAA's rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules. We will reimburse those fees for claims totaling less than $1,000 unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. Likewise, Scan Dimension will not seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, based on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or at another mutually agreed location.

We each agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated or representative action. If for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, we each waive any right to a jury trial. We also both agree that you or we may bring suit in court to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights.

APPLICABLE LAW

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SOFTWARE END USER AGREEMENT

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before installing this program. Installing this program indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions. If you do not agree with them you should promptly delete your copy of this program.

Global Scanning provides this program and licenses its use. You assume responsibility for the selection of the program to achieve your intended results, and for the installation, use and results obtained from the program.

License

You may install and use the program under this license on various personal computers or other media connected or linked to the same scanner. You may not install and use the program under this license in connection with more than one single scanner, unless this use is covered by a similar number of additional individual licenses for the program.

You may not modify the program for any purpose.
You may copy the program onto any machine readable or printed form for backup in support of your use of the program.
You may not use the program, or any copy, except as expressly provided for in this license. If you do so you terminate your license.

The program utilize or include third party software. Credits, licensing terms, and disclaimers for such materials can be found on this website.

Term

The license is effective until terminated. You may terminate it at any time by destroying the program together with all copies. The license will also terminate upon conditions set forth elsewhere in this Agreement or if you fail to comply with any term or condition of the Agreement. You agree upon such termination to destroy the program together with all copies, modifications and merged portions in any form.

Limited Warranty

The Program is provided to you AS IS. To the maximum extent provided under applicable law Global Scanning expressly disclaims all warranties expressed or implied including but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. Global Scanning makes no guarantee or representations regarding the use or distribution of, or the results of the use or distribution of, the Program in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability or otherwise. Licensee relies on this program solely at Licensee’s own risk.

Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights; you may also have other rights which vary from state to state. Global Scanning does not warrant that the functions or the operation of the program will be uninterrupted or error free.

However, if you have acquired the program on an official Global Scanning medium, Global Scanning warrants the medium on which the program is furnished to be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use for a period of two (2) years from the date of delivery to you, as evidenced by a copy of your receipt.

Limitations of Remedies

Global Scanning's entire liability and your exclusive remedy shall be:

The replacement of any medium not meeting the Global Scanning "Limited Warranty" and which is returned to Global Scanning or an authorized ScanDimension dealer with a copy of your receipt, or if Global Scanning or the dealer is unable to deliver a replacement medium which is free of defects in materials or workmanship, you may terminate this Agreement by returning the program and your money will be refunded.

In no event shall Global Scanning and/or its respective suppliers be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of program, documents, provision of or failure to provide services, or information available from the ScanDimension website.

In no event will Global Scanning be liable to you for any damages including any lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use such program, even if Global Scanning or an authorized ScanDimension dealer has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party.

General

You may not sublicense, assign or transfer the license of the program except as expressly provided in this Agreement. Any attempt otherwise to sublicense, assign or transfer any of the rights, duties or obligations under this Agreement hereunder is void.

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of Denmark. Should you have any questions concerning this Agreement, you may contact Global Scanning.

You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement, understand it, and agree to be bound by its terms and conditions. You further agree that this is the complete license agreement on the program between you and Global Scanning.

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Third Party Software

The following sections contains the Credits, licensing terms, and disclaimers of the third party software used by Scan Dimension.

Assimp: Open Asset Import Library (assimp)

http://www.assimp.org/

Redistribution and use of this software in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

* Neither the name of the assimp team, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission of the assimp team.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

******************************************************************************

http://code.google.com/p/poly2tri/

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* Neither the name of Poly2Tri nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

ColDet - 3D Collision Detection Library

http://sourceforge.net/projects/coldet/

Delaunator-cpp

https://github.com/delfrrr/delaunator-cpp

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE 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 AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 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 SOFTWARE.

Fast-Quadric-Mesh-Simplification

http://github.com/sp4cerat/Fast-Quadric-Mesh-Simplification

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

GLEW: The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library

http://glew.sourceforge.net/

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* The name of the author may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

Mesa 3-D graphics library

Version: 7.0

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE 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 AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL BRIAN PAUL 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 SOFTWARE.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and/or associated documentation files (the "Materials"), to deal in the Materials without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Materials, and to permit persons to whom the Materials are furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Materials.

THE MATERIALS ARE 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 AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 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 MATERIALS OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE MATERIALS.

LibSSH

https://www.libssh.org/

LIBSSH is distributed with this program and is subject to the terms in LGPL 2.1. The LGPL license is included in the end of this document.

LibUSB

https://libusb.info/

LibUSB is distributed with this program and is subject to the terms in LGPL 2.1. The LGPL license is included in the end of this document.

NN-C

http://github.com/sakov/nn-c

Redistribution and use of material from the package `nn', with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of material must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. The names of the authors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Note: NN-C has been modified, such that it uses Delaunator-cpp instead of Triangle.

OpenCV

http://opencv.org/

License

By downloading, copying, installing or using the software you agree to this license. If you do not agree to this license, do not download, install, copy or use the software.

License Agreement

For Open Source Computer Vision Library

(3-clause BSD License)

Third party copyrights are property of their respective owners.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the names of the copyright holders nor the names of the contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

This software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors "as is" and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall copyright holders or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

Poisson Recon - 2006 version

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Code/PoissonRecon/Version6/

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the name of the Johns Hopkins University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Poisson Recon - 2015 version

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Code/PoissonRecon/Version11.02/

The MIT License (MIT)

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Runetag

http://www.dsi.unive.it/~bergamasco/runetag/

MIT License

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE 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 AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 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 SOFTWARE.

LGPL 2.1

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

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