終端使用者授權合約

注意：在安裝或使用本官方授權軟體前，請您閱讀本文件。

本使用授權合約是您(個人或實體)與 Canon Inc. 之間的授權合約(簡稱「合約」)，是關於(i)隨同本合約提供給您的軟體程式、相關的電子或線上手冊及其更新(統稱「軟體」)，(ii)軟體或 Canon 印表機和/或掃描器(簡稱「印表機」)的其他資料或印表機的韌體更新(簡稱「資料更新」)，及(iii)隨同本合約提供或使用該軟體及其更新線上提供用於列印的數位格式之文字、影像、圖示和其他視覺表示(本軟體除外)(簡稱「內容資料」)的合約。以後提及的軟體、資料更新和內容資料各自簡稱「官方授權軟體」。Canon 公司位於 30-2 Shimomaruko 3-chome、Ohta-ku、Tokyo 146-8501、Japan(簡稱「Canon」)。

儘管本合約中有任何相反的規定，官方授權軟體還包括本合約條款不適用的某些軟體模組和資源庫(「第三方軟體」)。第三方軟體清單及其適用的使用條款可能在本合約結尾、相關說明文件(如使用者手冊)或官方授權軟體的授權資訊中指明。

按一下隨本合約提供的按鈕，表示您接受本合約，安裝本官方授權軟體，或者使用本官方授權軟體，表示您同意遵守本合約的條款。如果您不同意接受本合約的條款，請不要按前述按鈕並立即關閉本安裝程式。本官方授權軟體將不會安裝，同時您將不再享有使用本軟體的權利。您僅能在遵守以下條款的情況下使用本官方授權軟體。

1. 所有權和著作權：本官方授權軟體的所有權利、資格和獲益為 Canon 或其授權人所有。Canon 或其授權人將始終保留對本官方授權軟體和包括列印件(如下定義)在內的所有其他形式副本的所有版權和其他智慧財產權。除本合約明確規定的情況外，Canon 不會將自己及其授權人的任何智慧財產權的授權或者權利以明示或默示的形式轉讓或授權給您。您不得修改、移除或刪除本官方授權軟體及所有其他形式副本中包含的 Canon 和/或其授權人所提及的著作權標示。

2. 授權：您享有使用本官方授權軟體的如下授權是非專屬和不可轉讓的：

(1) 您被授權在多台電腦上使用(「使用」意味著安裝、執行或顯示本軟體)本軟體。您不得出租、租賃、轉讓授權、借出、出售、讓渡、讓與和轉讓本軟體。

(2) 您被授權在多台電腦或印表機上使用(「使用」意味著安裝、執行或顯示資料更新)資料更新。您不得出租、租賃、轉讓授權、借出、出售、讓渡、讓與和轉讓資料更新。

(3) 您被授權在個人用途的多功能電腦上複製和使用內容資料(「使用」意味著透過網際網路使用本軟體下載、安裝、執行或顯示內容資料)。您不得出租、租賃、轉讓授權、借出、出售、讓渡、讓與或轉讓內容資料。您也被授權僅出於個人非商業目的列印內容資料並使用或已使用、複製或已複製以及發佈此類列印件(簡稱「列印件」)。您不得出於商業目的使用或已使用、複製或已複製以及發佈本列印件。對於您使用列印件，或使用列印件產生的或以任何方式相關的索賠和訴訟，包括從索賠、損失、損害、訴訟、判決、起訴成本和律師費產生的任何債務或費用，Canon 將不承擔任何責任。

(4) 您被授權在允許使用支持的範圍內備份一定數量的本官方授權軟體副本，並且在所有副本中包含與提供給您的本官方授權軟體原稿副本一致的 Canon 著作權標示。

(5) 您不得出於違反公共秩序和道德或與反社會勢力相關的目的使用或複製授權軟體，亦不得允許或使任何第三方進行此類活動。

(6) 您不得出於任何與成人內容或反社會組織相關的目的使用或複製內容資料，亦不得允許或使任何第三方進行此類活動。

(7) 您不得以任何會侵犯或盜用 Canon、其分公司與關係企業及內容資料授權人的(與內容資料的相關的)版權、肖像權、商標或任何其他權利的方式使用或複製內容資料，亦不得允許或使任何第三方進行此類活動。

(8) 您不得為自己或任何第三方使用或註冊內容資料的任何部分作為商標、商品名稱、服務標章或任何其他商品說明，亦不得允許或使任何第三方進行此類活動。

(9) 您不得出於損害 Canon、其分公司與關係企業及其任何授權人之形象的目的使用或複製內容資料，亦不得允許或使任何第三方進行此類活動。

除非在本合約明確允許或授權的情況外，並在法律特別許可的範圍內，否則您不得出租、租賃、轉讓授權、借出、出售、讓渡、讓與、轉讓、複製、翻版、修改、改編、整合、翻譯、轉變成其他程式語言、變更設計、重新編輯、變更、重新整合或在基於全部或部分本官方授權軟體基礎上製作衍生產品，您也不得許可任何第三方進行以上行為或使用本官方授權軟體。

3. 資訊傳輸確認：當您使用本軟體透過網路存取 Canon(或 Canon 指定之任何第三方)的伺服器時，某些軟體可能會傳輸您使用的印表機、本軟體及個人裝置的相關資訊。 您明確確認並同意，Canon 和其分公司與關係企業及其各自配銷商和經銷商可以(i)使用此類資訊，向您提供適用於您印表機環境的資訊和資料，以及(ii)基於開發產品以及改善產品和服務品質之目的，分析並使用此類資訊。 如果此類資訊包含您的個人資訊，Canon 將根據您所在國家或地區之適用法律徵得您的同意，並根據 Canon 的隱私權政策使用您的個人資訊。

4. 出口限制：您同意遵守各相關國家/地區的所有出口法律、限制和規定，並遵守美國的出口管理規定(簡稱「EAR」)。在有可能違反這些法律、限制和規定，或者尚未獲得各種必要的許可時，不能直接或間接地、出口或再出口本官方授權軟體。

5. 期限：本合約自按一下隨本合約提供的表示接受本合約的按鈕，安裝本官方授權軟體，或者使用本官方授權軟體時起即生效，並且直到本合約終止。您可以透過銷毀本官方授權軟體(包括任何形式的全部副本，但不包括安裝在印表機上的資料更新)來終止本合約。如果您不遵守本合約的任何條款和條件，本合約也將終止。無論任何原因，一旦終止本合約，您應立即銷毀本官方授權軟體的全部副本，並包括在您擁有、您的能力或控制範圍內的所有電腦硬碟或固態硬碟上儲存的任何官方授權軟體，但不包括安裝在印表機上的資料更新。此外，Canon 仍有權利行使其擁有的任何基於契約或法定基礎上的權利及救援。儘管上述如此，但本合約中的第 1、3、5 至 9 條不因本合約之終止而失效。

6. 支援和更新：Canon 和其分公司、分支機構及其各自配銷商和經銷商以及 Canon 的授權人，都不負責維護或協助本官方授權軟體的使用。Canon 和其分公司、分支機構及其各自配銷商和經銷商以及 Canon 的授權人，都沒有義務提供本官方授權軟體的更新、維護或使用支援，除非您與以上任一實體有書面合約。

7. GPL 提供的軟體模組和特殊例外：授權軟體中包含的一些軟體模組是免費軟體。  儘管本合約中有任何相反的規定，您可以根據本合約所附的聲明和 GPL(在聲明中定義)的條款進行再分發和/或修改。請閱讀本合約所附的聲明以瞭解更多詳細資訊

8. 有限擔保：本「官方授權軟體」是「按其現況」提供，不附帶任何形式的明示或默示的擔保，包含但不限於對本官方授權軟體對某一特定目的的適銷性和適用性、品質和/或的默示擔保，或者不侵犯任何權利、資格和獲益，包括但不限於智慧財產權的保證。

您將承擔本官方授權軟體的所有品質及性能風險。本官方授權軟體如有任何瑕疵，您(而不是 Canon 和其分公司、分支機構及其各自的配銷商和經銷商以及 Canon 的授權人)須自行承擔必要服務、修理或校正的全部成本。

某些國家(地區)或司法體系禁止限制或排除默示擔保或條件，但是上述免責事由對您可能不適用。該擔保賦予了您特定的法律權利。由於國家(地區)間或司法體系間的差異，您也許還會享有其他權利。

CANON 無法擔保包含在本官方授權軟體中的功能可以滿足您的需求，也無法擔保在操作本官方授權軟體過程中不會出現中斷或錯誤的現象。但是，如果以媒體形式(例如，CD-ROM)提供本官方授權軟體，Canon 對本官方授權軟體的儲存媒體，在您購買日起算的九十日內(以收據或其他 Canon 可接受的有效證明為憑)，擔保其材質及製造技術，在正常使用情況下沒有瑕疵(「有限擔保」)。

消費者賠償：Canon 和其分公司、分支機構及其各自配銷商和經銷商以及 Canon 的授權人之全部責任及您可獲得之唯一救援是更換不符合有限擔保的媒體，並且將該媒體退回到您購買本官方授權軟體時所在國家的 Canon 當地銷售分公司，需持有收據副本或其他 Canon 可接受的有效憑證。如果因意外、濫用或誤用本官方授權軟體而導致媒體故障，則不再適用有限擔保，有限擔保也不適用於除本官方授權軟體的原始使用者以外的任何其他使用者。

9. 擔保聲明：以上所提及的有限擔保是您僅有的擔保，將取代由成文法、普通法、貿易慣例、交易行為等默示的擔保、條件、敘述、承擔的責任、條款和責任，上述默示擔保等將在法律最大範圍內被予以免除。

10. 責任限制：在法律所准許的最大範圍內，無論 Canon 是否已經被告知可能會發生這些損失，對於直接的、間接的、衍生的、附帶特殊的或其他任何損失(包括但不限於商業獲益損失、商務中斷或商務資訊遺失)，Canon 和其分公司、分支機構及其各自的配銷商和經銷商以及 Canon 的授權人均不負責。在任何情況下，由本合約引起或與本合約相關的 Canon 和其分公司、分支機構及其各自的配銷商和經銷商以及 Canon 的授權人的全部責任，包括基於契約、民事侵權行為(包含但不限制於過失)等產生的責任，將限於五美元(US$5.00)或等价的本國貨幣。

在本合約中，消費者的法定權利將不會受到影響。

11. 普通：本合約包含了所有您與 Canon 之間的全部關於本官方授權軟體的合約，並且將取代關於本官方授權軟體的任何口頭或書面敘述、契約或合約。任何當事人均無權對簽署本合約時所做出的敘述(除非敘述是偽造)享有救援權利。依據本合約規定，任何當事人唯一救援均為本合約議項下的違約救援措施。

不論何時，如果本合約的任一部分被具有權力的司法部門認定為全部或部分非法、無效或無執行效力，在法律規定下本合約中其他任何部分之合法性、有效性或執行性不會受到影響或損害。

在本合約下，如果 Canon 無法執行或延遲執行權利、權力或救援，Canon 在任何情況下也不會放棄權利、權力或救援。

本合約之修改須以書面並經 Canon 授權代表簽名後，否則修改無效。

由 Canon 分公司和/或分支機構發佈之本合約，乃透過 Canon 的分公司和/或分支機構直接實施。

美國政府限制權利標示
本軟體屬 48 C.F.R. 2.101(1995 年 10 月)所界定之「商業項目」，構成 48 C.F.R. 12.212(1995 年 9 月)所稱之「商業電腦軟體」和「商業電腦軟體文件」。依據 48 C.F.R. 12.212 和 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 至 227.7202-4(1995 年 6 月)，所有美國政府最終使用者在獲得軟體時僅享有本合約規定的權利。製造商為 Canon Inc.，位於 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146-8501, Japan。

No. I010G026743

根據 GPL 和特殊豁免向您提供軟體模組的聲明(以下稱「聲明」)

1. 定義
(1) 此聲明中使用的術語「Module I」、「Module II」和「Module III」是指與本聲明一起交付的 Readme 檔案附件 1、2 和 3 中所述的軟體模組。
(2) 此聲明中使用的術語「GPL」是指由 Free Software Foundation 發佈的 GNU General Public License Version 2。

2. 條款和條件
Module II 和 Module III 是免費軟體；您可以根據 GPL 的條款進行再分發和/或修改。Module II 和 Module III 是本著對閣下有用的期望進行分發，但不提供保證；甚至不提供適銷性或特定用途適用性的默示保證。您可以稍後在此聲明中找到 GPL 的全文，瞭解更多詳細資訊。

3. 特殊例外
(1) Canon 將向您分發 Module III，但以下 (1) 至 (3) 中規定的特殊例外除外。此例外僅適用於 Module III。Canon 允許，如果您將 Module III 與其他檔案連結以產生可執行檔，這樣做
本身不會導致 GPL 涵蓋產生的可執行檔。您對該可執行檔的使用不會因連結了 Module III 而受到任何限制。但是，此例外不會使導致 GPL 可能涵蓋可執行檔的任何其他原因失效。 

(2) 如果您在 GPL 允許的情況下，將 Module II 或依據 GPL 提供的程式碼複製到 Module III 的副本中，則此例外不適用於您以此方式新增的程式碼。為了避免在此類修改檔案的狀態方面誤導任何人，您必須從中刪除此聲明的第 3 項，然後您不得將此類修改檔案與 Module I 連結來產生可執行檔。
(3) 如果您為 Module III 撰寫自己的修改，您可以選擇是否允許此例外適用於您的修改。如果您不希望這樣做，請刪除此聲明的第 3 項，然後您不得將此類修改與 Module I 連結來產生可執行檔。

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b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License. 

c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.) 

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. 

Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program. 

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License. 

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: 

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) 

The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable. 

If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code. 

4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. 

5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. 
However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it. 

6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. 
You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License. 

7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program. 

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances. 

It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice. 

This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License. 

8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License. 

9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. 

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. 

10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. 
Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. 

NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, 
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. 

12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms. 

To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. 

one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.
Copyright (C) yyyy name of author
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. 

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode: 

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program. 

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: 

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
interest in the program `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. 
If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
