LFDP PROJECT DATA REQUEST FORM
LUQ LTER Data User's Licence and Users Agreement , Acknowledgement, Disclaimer, and User's form

By filling out this form you agree to the conditions stated bellow:

Your name:

Planned use for the data. This information will be helpful for the following reasons:
(1) Your description will be posted on the web so that everyone will know what analyses are being attempted. This may avoid duplication of effort and may promote investigator collaboration.
(2) Information on how the data is to be used will enable us to send additional advice, if required, to ensure that the data are used in an appropriate manner, or inform you if the data are changed in a way that might affect your analysis.
(3) Your input will help us to develop the data documentation to ensure no errors in data
interpretation occur.

Your E-Mail Address:

Your Regular Address:

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Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies (ITES)
University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
P.O. Box 363682
San Juan, PR 00936-3682
Tel. 767-0350

International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF)
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 25000
Río Piedras, PR 00928-5000
Tel. 766-5335

Data and documentation is copyrighted by Luquillo Experimental Forest LTER (LUQ LTER) project 
of the Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies (ITES) at the University of Puerto Rico and the 
International Institute of Tropical Forestry, and ownership remains with the LUQ LTER.

Licence
The LUQ LTER grants you (hereafter, Licensee) a license to use the data and documentation for 
academic, and research purposes only, without a fee. Licensee may make derivative works. 
However, if Licensee distributes any derivative work based on or derived from the data and 
documentation, then Licensee will

 1. notify Jill Thompson, the investigator who collected the data, regarding its distribution of the derivative work, 
and
 2. clearly notify users that such derivative work is a modified version and not the original 
data and documentation distributed by the LUQ LTER, and
 3. acknowledge the support of NSF Grants DEB-9411973 in any publications using the data and 
documentation, and
 4. send to the address, above, two reprints of any publications resulting from use of the data 
and documentation.

Any Licensee wishing to make commercial use of the data and documentation should contact the 
LUQ LTER, c/o ITES, to negotiate an appropriate license for such commercial use. Commercial use 
includes 

 1.integration of all or part of the data and documentation into a product for sale or license 
by or on behalf of Licensee to  third parties, or

 2.distribution of the data or documentation to third parties that need it to utilize a 
commercial product sold or licensed by  or on behalf of Licensee.

Disclaimer
LUQ LTER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THIS DATA AND
DOCUMENTATION FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTY. THE LUQ LTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY THE USERS OF 
THIS DATA AND DOCUMENTATION.

By using or copying this data and documentation, Licensee agrees to abide by the copyright 
law and all other applicable laws of the U.S. including, but not limited to, export control 
laws, and the terms of this license. LUQ LTER shall have the right to terminate this license 
immediately by written notice upon Licensee's breach of, or non-compliance with, any of its 
terms. Licensee may be held legally responsible for any copyright infringement that is caused 
or encouraged by Licensee's failure to abide by the terms of this license.