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Reformatted Nov 6 2003

1. License Fees

The brand fees and royalties in this table arecontrolled by and due under the terms and conditions of theOpen Brand Trademark License Agreement (Jan 1998).This document is an integral part of, and should be read inconjunction, with Schedule 2 of the above agreement.

When signing the Agreement the Licensee must :

1. Provide to The Open Group (X/Open Company Limited trading asThe Open Group) a statement of the Company Revenue from which theCore Program Royalty buy-out is calculated.
2. Notify The Open Group which of the Additional Programs theLicensee is applying to join.
3. Notify The Open Group of the applicable fee band for eachAdditional Program (where appropriate).

2. Product Registration Fees (Componentand Profile)

All applicants: if the ProductStandard is registered at the same time as all the constituent ProductStandards, then the registration charge equivalent to one ProductStandard is waived.

Platinum Members: 50% discount for allProduct Standard registrations

The Open Brand for LDAP Program: The Component and Profile Registration Fees are waived for members ofThe Open Group who have Identity Management Forum entitlement andVSLDAP test suite licenses and current VSLDAP support contracts

Type A Laboratories: when the testreport used to demonstrate conformance to the Product Standard has beenproduced by a laboratory that satisfies The Open Group's QualityAssurance criteria, the Product Standard registration fees will bereduced by 50%.

3. Payments for theCore Program

Table 1: Royalty Buy-out

4. Payments for Additional Programs

4.1 The UNIX Program

The right to use the UNIX Trademark requires the Licensee to pay toThe Open Group an additional annual fee, calculated in accordance withthe fee table set out below.

1. For the first 36 months following the Licensee acquiring theright to use the UNIX Trademark, all UNIX operating system productsbased on any variant of UNIX source code that the Licensee has licensedfrom any supplier plus any products that the Licensee claims to becompliant with the UNIX Profile Definition will be counted for thepurpose of calculating annual shipments.
2. From month 37 onwards only Registered Products and those that theLicensee claims to be compliant with the UNIX Profile Definition,excluding products registered by other Licensees, will be counted forthe purpose of calculating annual shipments.
3. 90 days before the anniversary of acquiring the right to use theUNIX Trademark the Licensee will notify The Open Group of theapplicable UNIX fee band set out in Table 2 below for the forthcomingyear.
   Within 90 days of the anniversary of acquiring the right to use theUNIX Trademark the Licensee will notify The Open Group of the actualapplicable UNIX fee band set out in table 1 below for the previousyear. In the event of a discrepancy between the forecast and actualapplicable UNIX fee bands, the discrepancy will be rectified as soon aspracticable in the following year.
4. For Licensees who ship software only and where the averagepublished product price, exclusive of add-ons, is less than $1,500, thefee is 50% of amount shown in Table 2.
5. UNIX Trademark fees are payable in advance on the date ofapplying to join the UNIX program and annually on each anniversarythereafter.

Table 2: Fees for UNIX Trademark

4.2 The Open Brand for LDAP Program

These fees are waived for members of The Open Group who haveIdentity Management Forum entitlement and VSLDAP test suite licensesand current VSLDAP support contracts.

4.3 The Open Brand for CORBA Program

Package Price

4.4 Internet server

Members of the Core Program will be able to register products to theProduct Standard for the registration fee only.

The core Program consists of the following standards.

• Base
• Base 95
• Common Desktop Environment
• XPG3: PLUS PROFILE
• XPG3: BASE PROFILE
• XPG3: Internationalised System Calls and Libraries
• Internationalised System Calls and Libraries
• Internationalised System Calls and Libraries Extended
• Internationalised System Calls and Libraries Extended V2
• Internationalised System Calls and Libraries Extended V3
• XPG3: Commands and Utilities
• Commands and Utilities
• Commands and Utilities V2
• Commands and Utilities V3
• Commands and Utilities V4
• XPG3: C Language
• C Language
• C Language V2
• XPG3: COBOL Language
• COBOL Language
• XPG3: Pascal Language
• Pascal Language
• XPG3: FORTRAN Language
• FORTRAN Language
• XPG3: Ada Language
• Ada Language
• XPG3: Inter-Process Communication
• Relational Database
• Calendering and Scheduling API
• XPG3: ISAM
• ISAM
• XPG3: SQL
• X Window System Display
• X Window System Application Interface
• X Window System Application Interface V2
• Motif™ Toolkit
• XPG3: Terminal Interfaces
• Software Administration
• Terminal Interfaces
• Internationalised Terminal Interfaces
• XPG3: Window Management (Xlib)
• BSFT
• X.400 Gateway
• X.400 Message Access
• Directory Access
• Network File System
• Sockets
• Sockets V2
• Transport Service (XTI)
• Transport Service (XTI) V2
• XPG3: Transport Interface
• CPI-C
• (PC)NFS Server
• LMX Server
• XPG3: PC Interworking
• Magnetic Media
• XPG3: Source Code Transfer

• UNIX
• Security
• CORBA
• Internet Server
• Multi-Purpose Real-time Operating System