Exemptionware, the Windows CE Community License

The HPC:Factor Exemptionware initiative is an attempt to prevent legacy software applications from disappearing from the screens of Windows CE users by encouraging developers to release their software into the public domain, without relinquishing their rights or control over it.

The Exemptionware license initiative is designed to wrap existing programs in new licensing terms that are laid out explicitly by the exemptionware license with the express intent of reducing piracy and providing the developer with a point of contact here at HPC:Factor.

The Exemptionware License

The license is simple and is designed to explicitly set the expectations of users in as few words as possible for what they can expect.

The main points are:

The developer is not relinquishing their rights to the program
The developer no longer has to provide (or can be expected to provide) technical support
There is no liability and no right of challenge over issues with the software by the end user
The program is not "abandonware" as the license is active and in effect from HPC:Factor as an extension of the developer

The License:

 HPC:FACTOR EXEMPTIONWARE LICENSE
 Version 1.1, October 2009, 2010

 Copyright (C) 2010 HPC:Factor (www.hpcfactor.com),
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

 This program has been released by its author via HPC:Factor 
 (http://www.hpcfactor.com/) for the benefit of the Windows CE Community.

 This program is copyright software and all rights remain reserved exclusively
 to the author. This program is not out of copyright and does not class as
 'abandonware'.

 This license permits you to use the software as exemptionware software. Under
 the terms of this license you may use the software, exempt from the commercial,
 paid constraints of its previous license. In specific that you may use the
 software:

 - For free, without charge and in perpetuity

 - Without any warranty express or implied on the part of either the developer
   or HPC:Factor (www.hpcfactor.com)

 - Without any offer or suggestion of technical support being provided by the
   developer under any circumstances

 - No liability (financial or otherwise) for any reason will be extended by the
   developer for any purpose in relation to this software and by its use to
   relinquish all rights and claims against the developer in relation to this
   software

 - You may not redistribute the software without the express written consent
   of the developer

 - You may not redistribute this HPC:Factor exemptionware package without the
   express written consent of HPC:Factor (if one has been provided with/for this
   release)

 - You may not sell, resell, redistribute or gain commercially from the
   software program or programs or from any constituent part of the program
   either on its own or as part of a collection

 - You may not modify, reverse engineer or decompile the software or attempt to
   rebrand the software

 All other license terms remain in effect unless specifically countered in writing
 by the developer