Terms of Use
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Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®) License
Your use of OVAL is conditioned upon acceptance of the following terms
and conditions:
OVAL is comprised of the OVAL Language, OVAL Content, and the OVAL
Repository each is defined below:
- The OVAL Language serves as the framework and vocabulary of
OVAL. The Language covers the three steps of the assessment
process: an OVAL System Characteristics schema for
representing system information, an OVAL Definition schema for
expressing a specific machine state, and an OVAL Results
schema for reporting the results of an assessment.
- OVAL Content is content written in the OVAL Language. All
content written in the OVAL Language is considered OVAL
Content.
- The OVAL Repository is a collection of OVAL Content hosted by
The MITRE Corporation. It is the central meeting place for
the OVAL Community to discuss, analyze, store, and disseminate
OVAL Definitions. Each definition in the OVAL Repository
determines whether a specified software vulnerability,
configuration issue, program, or patch is present on a system.
The MITRE Corporation (MITRE) hereby grants you a non-exclusive,
royalty-free license to use OVAL for research, development, and
commercial purposes. Any copy you make for such purposes is
authorized provided that you reproduce MITRE’s copyright designation
and this license in any such copy.
The OVAL Language is the copyrighted work of MITRE. No ownership or
other proprietary interest in the OVAL Language is granted to you
other than what is granted in this license.
OVAL Content, whether already in the OVAL Repository hosted by MITRE
or developed by you and sent to MITRE to be deposited into the OVAL
Repository, is fully available for public use free of charge. In
addition, to the extent that contributed OVAL Content involves
pre-existing copyrighted works, you hereby grant to MITRE an
irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, license, for the
duration of the copyright, to do the following:
- to reproduce such OVAL Content, either alone or as part of
a collective work;
- to translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrange
such OVAL Content, thereby creating derivative works
("Derivative Works"); and
- to distribute, display, or communicate copies of such OVAL
Content to the public free of charge.
MITRE IS PROVIDING OVAL "AS IS" AND MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, AS TO THE ACCURACY, CAPABILITY, EFFICIENCY, MERCHANTABILITY,
OR FUNCTIONING OF OVAL. IN NO EVENT WILL MITRE BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, OR TORT, EVEN IF MITRE HAS BEEN
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You accept this OVAL License on the condition that you indemnify,
defend, and hold harmless MITRE, its Board of Trustees, officers,
agents, and employees, from any and all liability or damages to third
parties, including attorneys’ fees, court costs, and other related
costs and expenses, to the extent arising out of your use of OVAL and
your contribution of OVAL Content to the OVAL Repository hosted by
MITRE irrespective of the cause of said liability.
You understand that any export of the OVAL Language, OVAL Content, or
OVAL Repository may require an export license and you assume full
responsibility for obtaining such license.
This License shall be construed, governed, interpreted and applied in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia without
regard to Virginia conflict of law rules and you agree to submit to
the exclusive jurisdiction of the Virginia courts.
NOTICE:
This software (or technical data) was produced for the U. S. Government under contract 0708H300-OV, and is subject to the Rights in Data-General Clause 52.227-14 (JUNE 1987)
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