dblp - Legal Information
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Version of November 22nd, 2019


1. Copyright and License
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The dblp computer science bibliography, subsequently referred to as dblp, is
copyright by Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics (German:
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH).

The metadata provided by dblp on its webpages, as well as their XML, JSON,
RDF, RIS, BibTeX, and text export formats available at our website, is
released under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication license. That is, you are
free to copy, distribute, use, modify, transform, build upon, and produce
derived works from our data, even for commercial purposes, all without asking
permission. Of course, we are always happy if you provide a link to us as the
source of the data.

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

To ensure compatibility with existing integrations of our data, all metadata
is also released under Open Data Commons ODC-BY 1.0 license as a secondary
license. If you are currently using our data under ODC-by 1.0, please update
to CC0 accordingly.

http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/


2. Terms of Use and Disclaimer
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By using our web service you acknowledge the following disclaimer of liability:

The dblp team puts much effort into guaranteeing that this web service is as
up-to-date, factually correct, and complete as possible. However, it cannot be
precluded that there are flaws, errors, inconsitencies, and missing entries in
the provided data. No liability whatsoever shall be assumed for claims following
from material or immaterial damage or loss as the result of the use of or the
inability to use our data, or the use of erroneous or incomplete data, unless
premeditation or gross negligence on the part of DBLP can be demonstrated. Your
use of the data provided on this website is at your own risk.

In dblp, brand, product and company names are used without mentioning eventual
existing patents, gebrauchsmuster, or trademark rights, as it is the customary
practice in scientific bibliographies. The use without mentioning existing patents,
gebrauchsmuster, or trademarks does not give reason for the assumption, a brand or
tradename is free of such rights. All protected brands, products or company names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective owners.

The web service provided by DBLP includes hyperlinks to third-party websites.
Only hyperlinks to websites are included whose content, in our fair judgment,
does not violate applicable law at the time of inclusion. However, we do not have
any influence on the content of third-party websites. Despite careful examination
and taking every precaution, we assume no liability whatsoever for the past,
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certain knowledge that a linked third-party website violates applicable law,
please let us know. We will take care that such hyperlinks are removed.

These terms are part of the web service provided by dblp. If a provision of these
terms is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that
shall not affect the validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any
other provision of these terms; or the validity or enforceability in other
jurisdictions of that or any other provision of these terms.


3. See also
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For more information, see also our legal information page at

https://dblp.org/db/about/copyright.html