HKL License Policy for Academic Users

We plan to gradually phase out the HKL package, and we encourage all users to acquire the HKL-2000 software instead.

The HKL package is available to academic and commercial users. Both types of users are subject to an end-user license agreement and a license fee. 

Each license is a site license, and an individual license is required for each instrument at the site. A user buying a new detector should acquire an additional HKL license.

The information on this page is intended for non-commercial users at universities, governmental entities or academic non-profit institutions. An academic non-profit institution is defined by its mission: research in the public domain and education. A non-profit organization that performs research as a service under contract to a commercial entity does not belong to the category of non-commercial users (as clarified below) and should review  "Commercial Users" page. 

The term "non-commercial use" means the use of the SOFTWARE by academic non-profit organizations (including universities, government entities and academic institutions) for research or educational purposes, where such research is not subject to any written agreement allowing a commercial or for-profit entity to impose intellectual property rights restrictions on the published results, for example by limiting further analysis and/or use of such results, or by delaying the availability of any data, where the SOFTWARE was used to derive those data, to the general public, for more than six months. Use that does not match the above description requires a different license explicitly allowing such use.

US Researchers(*), who DO NOT have a supported detector/instrument in their home laboratory may acquire a temporary (1 year), renewable license to use the HKL package free of charge for as long as they do not own a detector, as described in the license form linked to Option (A). 

Option (C) applies to cases, where a detector/instrument is available on site and used exclusively for non-commercial purposes. This option also applies if a site acquires an additional detector/instrument - one license is needed for each instrument even if they are of the same type.

Examples of the standard License Agreements are provided via the following links.

  • Option (A) -- temporary license as described above. Fee $0.00 

    • on-line form (please enable the JavaScript option in your web browser)

  • Option (C) -- a single permanent license as described above. Fee $1500.00 
    • on-line form (please enable the JavaScript option in your web browser)

Please fill the License Agreement form on-line and then print it. The license agreement needs to be signed by a properly authorized person. A completed license agreement (two copies please) should be mailed to HKL Research, Inc., before a license key file ( access key, cr_info) can be obtained.

A printed copy of the HKL manual is provided together with a permanent license or may be purchased separately.

Upgrade policy is summarized on page "Upgrades for the Academic Users". 

(*)Please note that this type of license is mainly for the US researches, but sometimes we make exceptions for the non-US academic users with insufficient means or needing a short time license to complete a particular problem.


Last modified: December, 2005

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