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THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE NOTICES AND INFORMATION

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This project is based on or incorporates material from the projects listed below (Third Party IP). The original copyright notice and the license under which Microsoft received such Third Party IP, are set forth below. Such licenses and notices are provided for informational purposes only. Where permitted, Microsoft licenses the Third Party IP to you under the licensing terms for the Microsoft product. Microsoft reserves all other rights not expressly granted under this agreement, whether by implication, estoppel or otherwise.

a. INTEL (R) MATH KERNEL LIBRARY (INTEL (R) MKL)

CNTK distribution contains Redistributable components of Intel (r) Math Kernel Library (Intel (r) MKL), Copyright © 2017 Intel Corporation.

Limited patent license. Intel grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and sell (“Utilize”) this Software, but solely to the extent that any such patent is necessary to Utilize the Software alone. The patent license shall not apply to any combinations which include this software. No hardware per se is licensed hereunder.

Third party and other Intel programs. “Third Party Programs” are the files listed in the “third-party-programs.txt” text file that is included with the Software and may include Intel programs under separate license terms. Third Party Programs, even if included with the distribution of the Materials, are governed by separate license terms and those license terms solely govern your use of those programs.

DISCLAIMER. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED. THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED NOR AUTHORIZED FOR USE IN SYSTEMS OR APPLICATIONS WHERE FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE MAY CAUSE PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT WILL INTEL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD INTEL HARMLESS AGAINST ANY CLAIMS AND EXPENSES RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE SOFTWARE.

No support. Intel may make changes to the Software, at any time without notice, and is not obligated to support, update or provide training for the Software.

Termination. Intel may terminate your right to use the Software in the event of your breach of this Agreement and you fail to cure the breach within a reasonable period of time.

Feedback. Should you provide Intel with comments, modifications, corrections, enhancements or other input (“Feedback”) related to the Software Intel will be free to use, disclose, reproduce, license or otherwise distribute or exploit the Feedback in its sole discretion without any obligations or restrictions of any kind, including without limitation, intellectual property rights or licensing obligations.

Compliance with laws. You agree to comply with all relevant laws and regulations governing your use, transfer, import or export (or prohibition thereof) of the Software.

Governing law. All disputes will be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Delaware without reference to conflict of law principles and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts sitting in the State of Delaware, and each party agrees that it submits to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts and waives any objections. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) is specifically excluded and will not apply to the Software.

b. BOOST C++ LIBRARIES

Copyright Beman Dawes, David Abrahams, 1998-2005.
Copyright Rene Rivera 2004-2007.
Provided for Informational Purposes Only

Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute, execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to do so, all subject to the following:

The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer, must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by a source language processor.

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, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

c. Open MPI

Copyright (c) 2004-2010 The Trustees of Indiana University and Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004-2010 The University of Tennessee and The University of Tennessee Research Foundation. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004-2010 High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, University of Stuttgart. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004-2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Los Alamos National Security, LLC. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Voltaire, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Sandia National Laboratories. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms.
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 The University of Houston. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Myricom, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2007-2008 UT-Battelle, LLC. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2007-2010 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Federal Republic of Germany
Copyright (c) 2005-2008 ZIH, TU Dresden, Federal Republic of Germany
Copyright (c) 2007 Evergrid, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2008 Chelsio, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2007 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Oak Ridge National Labs. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2009 Bull SAS. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2010 ARM ltd. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Alex Brick . All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2012 The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Intel, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2011-2014 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.

BSD License

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ""AS IS"" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

d. Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV)

(c) Copyright 2016, Itseez. BSD License
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ""AS IS"" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

e. zlib

Copyright © 1995-2013 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler Provided for Informational Purposes Only
zlib/libpng License

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

f. libzip

Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Dieter Baron and Thomas Klausner
BSD License
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ""AS IS"" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

g. Kaldi

Individual Contributors (in alphabetical order) Mohit Agarwal
Gilles Boulianne
Lukas Burget
Cisco Corporation
Ondrej Glembek
Arnab Ghoshal
Go Vivace Inc.
Mirko Hannemann
Navdeep Jaitly
Johns Hopkins University
Yajie Miao
Microsoft Corporation
Petr Motlicek
Vassil Panayotov
Ariya Rastrow
Saarland University
Petr Schwarz
Georg Stemmer
Jan Silovsky
Phonexia s.r.o.
Yanmin Qian
Lucas Ondel
Karel Vesely
Haihua Xu

Provided for Informational Purposes Only

Apache 2.0 License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the License); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

See the Apache Version 2.0 License for specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

h. OpenBLAS

Copyright (c) 2011-2014, The OpenBLAS Project BSD License
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ""AS IS"" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

i. OpenFst

Copyright 2005-2010 Google, Inc.
Provided for Informational Purposes Only
Apache 2.0 License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the License); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

See the Apache Version 2.0 License for specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

j. Google Protocol Buffers

Copyright 2014, Google Inc. All rights reserved.
Provided for Informational Purposes Only
Apache 2.0 License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the License); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the Apache Version 2.0 License for specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

k. Google gemmlowp Library

Apache 2.0 License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the License); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED ON AN AS IS BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABLITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. See the Apache Version 2.0 License for specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

l. Google Tensorflow

Copyright 2017 The TensorFlow Authors. All rights reserved.
Apache 2.0 License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the License); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED ON AN AS IS BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABLITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. See the Apache Version 2.0 License for specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

m. ATIS DATASETS

CNTK distribution contains a subset of ATIS Datasets:

Hemphill, Charles, et al. ATIS0 Complete LDC93S4A. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.
Garofolo, John, et al. ATIS2 LDC93S5. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.
Dahl, Deborah, et al. ATIS3 Test Data LDC95S26. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1995.
Dahl, Deborah, et al. ATIS3 Training Data LDC94S19. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1994.

n. TIMIT ACOUSTIC-PHONETIC CONTINUOUS SPEECH CORPUS

CNTK distribution contains a subset of TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus:

Garofolo, John, et al. TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus LDC93S1. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.

o. THE PENN TREEBANK PROJECT

CNTK distribution contains a subset of the data of The Penn Treebank Project:

Marcus, Mitchell, Beatrice Santorini, and Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz. Treebank-2 LDC95T7. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1995.

p. THE CMU AUDIO DATABASES

CNTK distribution contains a subset of the CMU Audio Databases

Copyright (c) 1991-2005 Carnegie Mellon University. All rights reserved.

q. THE MNIST DATABASE OF HANDWRITTEN DIGITS

CNTK distribution contains a subset of the MNIST Database of Handwritten Digits

r. Alpaca Selective Search

Copyright (c) 2015-2016 AlpacaDB
Copyright (c) 2016 Oussama ENNAFII

Provided for Informational Purposes Only
MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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 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.

s. CNTK distribution contains a subset of NVIDIA cuDNN

NVIDIA Windows: cudnn64.dll and Linux: libcudnn.so libraries may be used only in conjunction with CNTK.
Use of the NVIDIA Windows: cudnn64.dll and/or Linux: libcudnn.so libraries independent of CNTK is strictly prohibited.

t. CNTK distribution contains a subset of NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit in binary format.

The subset of NVIDIA CUDA includes the following libraries:
Windows: cublas64.dll, cudart64.dll, curand64.dll, cusparse64.dll
Linux: libcudart.so, libcublas.so, libcurand.so, libcusparse.so

This subset of NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit may be used only in binary format in conjunction with CNTK.
The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit files may not be modified, and use of the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit files independent of CNTK is strictly prohibited.

u. CNTK distribution contains a subset of NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) in binary format.

The subset of NVIDIA NCCL includes Linux: libnccl.so

Use of this library independent of CNTK is strictly prohibited.