CUSTOM PROPRIETARY ACADEMIC LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2019-2026 Van Kha Nguyen, Minh Nhat Quang Truong, Van Lam Le, Quyet Thang Le, Thanh Hai Nguyen. All rights reserved.

Project: tcpfeature
Original Research Reference: "A Novel Approach for Data Collection and Network Attack Warning" (IEEE, KSE)
Funding Acknowledgement: Funded by Can Tho Department of Science and Technology

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IMPORTANT—READ CAREFULLY: By downloading, installing, copying, or otherwise using 
the "tcpfeature" software package (hereinafter referred to as the "Software"), 
you agree to be bound by the terms of this Custom Proprietary Academic License. 
If you do not agree to the terms of this License, do not install or use the Software.

1. LICENSE GRANT FOR ACADEMIC AND NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH
The Software is distributed exclusively in compiled binary format via PyPI. 
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, the Authors hereby grant 
you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, limited license to install 
and use the compiled binary wheels of the Software solely for:
  (a) Non-commercial academic research.
  (b) Educational and classroom teaching purposes.
  (c) Personal evaluation and non-production testing.

2. MANDATORY CITATION REQUIREMENT
Any academic publication, conference paper, journal article, report, or public 
project that utilizes the Software or the accompanying DARPA29F dataset for data 
collection, feature extraction, or analysis MUST explicitly cite the original 
peer-reviewed paper introducing this methodology:

  Van Kha Nguyen, Minh Nhat Quang Truong, Van Lam Le, Quyet Thang Le, and 
  Thanh Hai Nguyen, "A Novel Approach for Data Collection and Network Attack Warning," 
  In 2019 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 
  IEEE, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/KSE.2019.8919494.

3. COMMERCIAL RESTRICTIONS
Any commercial use, production deployment, integration into commercial products, 
or monetization of the Software is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. You may not use the Software 
to provide commercial network analysis, intrusion detection, or data extraction 
services to third parties without obtaining a prior, explicit, written commercial 
license agreement signed by the primary Authors.

4. CLOSED-SOURCE AND REVERSE-ENGINEERING RESTRICTIONS
The underlying Cython, C, and C++ source code of the Software is proprietary 
and remains completely closed-source. You are explicitly prohibited from:
  (a) Decompiling, disassembling, or reverse-engineering the distributed binary 
      modules (.pyd, .so, or .whl files).
  (b) Modifying, adapting, translating, or creating derivative works based on 
      the binary distributions.
  (c) Slicing, separating, or redistributing independent binary components of 
      the Software package.

5. DISTRIBUTION
You may not redistribute, sub-license, rent, lease, or lend the Software binaries 
to any third party. The Software must be fetched and installed exclusively through 
the official Python Package Index channel (pip install tcpfeature).

6. TERMINATION
This License is effective until terminated. Your rights under this License will 
terminate automatically without notice from the Authors if you fail to comply 
with any term(s) of this License. Upon termination, you must cease all use of 
the Software and destroy all copies of the Software in your possession.

7. NO WARRANTY (DISCLAIMER)
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR THE FUNDING AGENCY (CAN THO DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE 
AND TECHNOLOGY) BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 
AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION 
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.