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README for Siemens Micropad Controller Version 6.1.9 Infrastructure and Cities Building Technologies Division Other Component Agreement README for Siemens Micropad Controller version 6.1.9 Embedded in, or bundled with, this product are open source software (OSS) components and other third party components identified below. You may receive a copy of,distribute and/or modify any open source code for the OSS component under the terms of their respective licenses,which may be GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, the modified BSD license and the MIT license. In the event of conflicts between Siemens license conditions and the Open Source Software license conditions, the Open Source Software conditions shall prevail with respect to the Open Source Software portions of the software. You are permitted to modify proprietary components originating from Siemens and to engage in reverse engineering for purposes of debugging such modifications, to the extent such components are linked to libraries licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. You are not permitted to distribute information resulting from such reverse engineering or to distribute the modified proprietary components. Your rights to modify proprietary components originating from parties other than Siemens are governed by the respective third party´s license conditions. On written request within three years from the date of product purchase and against payment of our expenses, Siemens will supply source code for any OSS component identified below in linewith the terms of the applicable license. For this, please contact us at: Siemens Schweiz AG Building Technologies Group Intellectual Property Gubelstraße 22 CH 6300 Zug Switzerland Generally, the identified OSS components are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even implied warranty such as for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, and without liability for any Siemens entity other than as explicitely documented in your purchase contract. Issue: 11-March-2015 Rev 1.0 - page 1/183 © Copyright 2015, Siemens Industry Inc. Siemens Building Technologies ReadMe_OSS Micropad Controller 1. Open Source Software (OSS) Components 3 1.1 Apache Commons Codec – version 1.7 3 1.2 Apache Commons Collections – version 2.1 6 1.3 Apache Commons HttpClient – version 4.2.3 7 1.4 Apache Commons IO – version 2.3 10 1.5 Apache Commons Logging – version 1.1.1 13 1.6 Apache Commons Pool – version 1.3 16 1.7 Apache HttpComponents HttpMime – version 4.2.3 19 1.8 Apache HttpCore – version 4.2.3 22 1.9 Apache Log4J – version 1.2.8 28 1.10 Apache Standard Taglib – version 1.0.3 29 1.11 Apache Tomcat – version 4.0 32 1.12 Apache Xalan Java – version 2.7.1 34 1.13 Apache Xerces2 Java – version 2.9.1 41 1.14 Apache XML-RPC – version 3.0 47 1.15 Beanshell – version 2.0b4 50 1.16 Castor – version 1.3 55 1.17 Codehaus Jaxen – version 1.0 FCS 64 1.18 Gefion LiteWebServer – version 3.0.3 66 1.19 Glassfish JAXP – version 1.2 68 1.20 Google Web Toolkit – Servlet portion only – version 2.5.0 72 1.21 Oracle Java Transaction API – version 1.1 75 1.22 Oracle Javabeans Activation Framework – version 1.1.0 79 1.23 Oracle JavaMail API – version 1.4.3 83 1.24 Sourceforge Dom4j – version 1.6.1 88 1.25 SourceForge HSQLDB – version 2.3.1 98 1.26 SourceForge Java Modbus Library – version 1.0fix2 107 1.27 Sourceforge SAX: Simple API for XML – version 2.0.2 109 1.28 SourceForge saxpath – version 1.0 FCS 110 1.29 Debian Lenny (Subset Site Controlss) – version 5.0.8 112 1.30 Miglayout –core – 4.2 121 1.31 Miglayout –swing – 4.2 122 1.32 RXTXComm – 2.1.7r2 123 1.33 OpenVPN - 2.1_rc11 133 2. Third Party Components Licensed by Siemens 141 2.1 SerialIO.com SerialPort – version 7.9 141 2.2 Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment – version 1.6.0-all 142 Issue: 11-March-2015 Rev 1.0 - page 2/183 © Copyright 2015, Siemens Industry, Inc. Siemens Building Technologies ReadMe_OSS Micropad Controller 1. Open Source Software (OSS) Components All open source software components used within the product are listed below (including their copyright holders and the license conditions). For OSS components having different portions released under different licenses, refer to the included Upstream Resources Internet website location(s) specified for each of the respective OSS components for identifications of code files released under the identified licenses. 1.1 Apache Commons Codec – version 1.7 Upstream Resources / Authors / Maintainers: http://commons.apache.org/codec/ Copyrights: Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation Acknowledgments This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). Licenses: Portions of the code are released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 Apache License, Version 2.0 Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 http://www.apache.org/licenses/ TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION 1. Definitions. "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document. 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