EULA for free products and sound sets

[dlarseninclusive]

I'm making combinator patches in Reason for hopefully a commercial sound set. Interested in including some for the free products. As a bonus not on its own.

I expect the U-he sponsored products to be fine.

The CM magazine apps are off limits I'm pretty sure, and redundant in any case with Bazille, and Zebra.

Tyrell is very interesting to work with, and seems grey in that circumstance.

If the rules are the same as making a skin, then I see no problems. I am just not sure they are.

Thanks

[dlarseninclusive]

I do understand this is terrible timing (Christmas Eve), for deep question like this, I do not need or expect a response in any immediate time frame.

This is the grey part I am talking about, Below in *Bold*

More line 3 and 5 than 6 of "You may not" I think I understand the intent of line 6 (Meaning, cannot sample it).

Again my question is about: a patch is a patch, and a Reason Combinator can certainly be viewed as a form of commercial software integration, even if I gave them away for free. (I was hoping to add them as an exclusive bonus, however free is OK with me too. A free Tyrell N6 Combinator Patch set would be a good showcase of U-he Combinators in Reason, and even that is not in line with the EULA)

I can let this go, or get very specific on what I am doing in order to get written permission. Seemed better to check in before.

- EULA license.txt

TyrellN6
u-he.com

License

u-he TyrellN6 is a freeware plugin instrument for VST (Win & Mac) and Audio Units (Mac). The distribution rights belong to the Heckmann Audio GmbH and Amazona.de, exclusively.

The author (Heckmann Audio GmbH, u-he.com) grants anybody to use it (TyrellN6) in the way he (you, who's reading this - or should be) wants, as long as following requirements are met:

You may not

- distribute it on magazine cds (or magazine dvds) or on your website

- set links to its direct download location on websites or other means to hyperlink to the Internet

- integrate it or parts of it in any form in commercial software products without the author's written permission

- reverse engineer, modify any of its components including but not limited to software algorithms, graphical artwork or sonic properties other than by using the means that the unmodified software publishes over its user interface or host interface

- gain profit (financially, publicity or any other) from it other than by the music you create with it

- expressly you may not use it to create any sort of sample libraries or the likes that reproduces sonic material made with it by other means than the software (it, TyrellN6) itself

- infringe the copyright of the author by any claims of anybody else's ownership other than the author

Nevertheless it is expressly granted to

- publish screenshots and audio examples on websites, interactive, video and print material as long as there's some kind of link and reference to the author's website

- set links to its page at Amazona.de or u-he.com

In short:

Use it for your own fun, but don't distribute it - link to Amazona.de or u-he.com instead.

Enjoy,

Urs Heckmann
http://www.u-he.com
support@u-he.com



2012 by Heckmann Audio GmbH

VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies
AU and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc.
Win is short for Windows which is a trademark of Microsoft Inc.

[Urs]

Yeah, we need to rework that some day... I put that together from examples many years ago.

You can of course create presets (or Combinator patches) and sell those - I don't think there are any legal grounds to prevent this from happening. But you can't bundle the software itself with a commercial product. I.e. if your presets come in an installer which also installs, say, Tyrell N6, that would violate stuff. Anyone could go "100 great instruments for 20 bucks (u-he TyrellN6 included)".

People could also create a VST that wraps around TyrellN6 or anything and simply swaps the name and UI components. That'd be a simple thing to do as an afternoon project to quickly build a good sounding VSTi. This is the kind of stuff we want to prevent.

The sample part is outdated as well. We don't want demos to be used (if you make a sample library, pay for the soft you use) and we don't want our presets to be sampled. We actually don't think that samples can represent the dynamic range of our products, so we'd prefer the names of our products to be stripped from sampled material.

[dlarseninclusive]

I understand completely, I can execute inside of that without any problem at all.

I can save some details as my team and I have much to do. I may want to run some preliminary results by the quorum which would be here on this forum. Bazille won as the first sound set (It has some hard sounds ). We are planning all 6 flagship synthesizers (short of Filterscape, which pains me personally, but in time.) The first sets will be produced with Dark Metal Industrial in mind.

Reason having VST support now, I hope represents an untapped market and nobody knows if that is true, I very much want to find out. As you know your product line is the best one. I think this is a good new niche and will also promote U-he. I am stoked.

Thanks man, for taking a few minutes on Christmas Eve.

Thank You Sir,