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PsyScript: claims and disclaimers

Distribution terms

You may distribute (make copies not intended for immediate installation, make these copies available to people) PsyScript yourself, but only under one of the following three arrangements, A, B or C:

  1. All four of the following conditions apply:
    1. Your distribution includes all materials which are included in the package downloadable from PsyScript's home page.
    2. You make no charge for such distribution or supply.
    3. You are not distributing as part of any activity which provides income, even where 'income' is just money made from third-party advertising.
    4. You make no deceptive claims about the source of, or licensing terms for, PsyScript.
  2. Before you start distributing PsyScript you have agreed licensing terms for distribution with the Secretariat of Lancaster University.
  3. You agree to pay the Secretariat of Lancaster University the sum of Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling (£50,000) for every calendar month or part of a calendar month in which you distribute PsyScript.

If your distribution method is not clearly of type A or type B, then it will be understood to be of type C, and setting up the distribution will be interpreted as acceptance of these terms.

Special note with regard to liability

PsyScript may appear to be in a special situation with regard to liability because it can be used in medical or psychological trials to assess patient-reaction to treatments. However, PsyScript was developed as a teaching and academic research tool, not the last word in medical testing facilities. It did not have a multi-million Euro development programme behind it. It has not been subject to a barrage of third-party tests and quality assurance processes.

The developer of PsyScript does not assure users of the accuracy, precision, or consistency of the results it produces. Although effort has gone into ensuring that PsyScript does what it purports to do, no warranty is made that the software is of sufficient quality to make it suitable for use in medical assessment, trials, procedures or treatment. All responsibility for anything PsyScript is used for is rejected by the developer and by the organisation PsyScript was developed for.

PsyScript may, however, turn out to be the correct tool for your purposes. If you wish to use PsyScript as a serious test administration platform, perform your own tests on everything used in your own setup – software, operating system and hardware – and assure yourself that that your setup will provide results which satisfy your requirements. Acceptance testing for medical purposes, both in the EU and the USA, is performed on a 'whole solution' basis. In other words that it is impossible to have PsyScript itself tested, but rather that testing would be of PsyScript running a specific script on specific hardware.