This package consists of 2 elements: a database of certification data for solar thermal collectors drawn from the Solar Keymark database (https://solarkeymark.eu/database) and additional sources, and software code to support use of that data.
The software is copyright 2023 AEE - Institut für Nachhaltige Technologien, who herby grant you a license to use without charge, but not to modify or redistribute this software.
Copyright to the certification data is owned in each case by the certification body who oversaw certification of the particular collector, this information is included in each entry in the database. The certification data is included in this package by kind permission of the copyright holders, and you are hereby granted permission to use, but not to modify or redistribute this data, subject to the following conditions, to the general conditions of the Solar Keymark database (https://solarkeymark.eu/), and the rules of the Solar Keymark certification scheme.
1.	You may use this data only via the software interfaces provided by this package, and only for the purposes of assessment or monitoring of, or research into, solar thermal collectors or solar thermal collector fields.
2.	You may not use data from this package for any purpose not stated in 1), in particular you may not use it for marketing promoting any solar thermal collector.
3.	The presence of a solar thermal collector in the database contained in this package is not an indication that it currently holds SolarKeymark certification, and you are explicitly prohibited from using this data to make any assertion about the current or past certification status of any solar thermal collector.
4.	Any publication of results, assessments, analyses, or other information derived by the use of data contained in this package must attribute the authors of this package, as well as specify the version number and release date of the specific version of the package used.
THE SOFTWARE AND DATA 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 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 DATA OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE OR DATA.
