Prostate Commander – Licence agreement, terms of use and third-party components

Dr. Herbert Schuster · deepnet.at

Version 1.0 · as of 15 September 2026

Wording identical to the text files of the installation; the spelling matches those files. In case of discrepancies between the language versions the German version prevails.

1Licence agreement (complete application)

PROSTATE COMMANDER - LICENCE AGREEMENT (FULL EDITION)
Version 1.3 - Stand 14.10.2026

Licensor: Dr. Herbert Schuster, deepnet.at (the "Licensor"). Licensee: the natural or legal person installing or using the software (the "Licensee"). The software "Prostate Commander" including program, help, report templates and documentation (the "Software") is provided exclusively under the following terms. By installing, copying or using the Software the Licensee declares unreserved acceptance. Anyone who does not agree must neither install nor use the Software.

1.Intended Use

1.1 The Software is a research and development tool for the evaluation of prostate MRI data. It is not a medical device within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, is not CE-certified and is not intended for clinical diagnosis, treatment decisions or patient care.

1.2 Every segmentation, lesion marking, score, report and simulation is a technical suggestion without medical validity. The medical assessment rests solely with the Licensee, who verifies every result on their own responsibility before using it in any way.

1.3 The Licensee ensures that the use is permissible in their environment, in particular under medical device, professional and data protection law. Any use for which an approval, certification or conformity assessment is required is prohibited.

2.Scope of Licence

2.1 The Licensor grants the Licensee a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right, limited to the version series 1.x, to use the Software on ONE workstation (one installation) for the Licensee's own purposes. Every additional workstation requires an additional licence.

2.2 One backup copy is permitted. The following in particular are prohibited: passing on, renting, lending, selling, making publicly available, use for third parties as a service, decompiling, disassembling and reverse engineering beyond what is mandatorily permitted by law, circumventing or altering technical protection measures (for example computation counters, licence files), removing or altering copyright, licence and warning notices, and using the Software or its output to train or develop competing products.

2.3 The Software is protected by copyright. All rights not expressly granted remain with the Licensor. The source code is not part of the licence. The designation "OPEN" of the test edition denotes the trial function and does not constitute an open-source licence.

2.4 Models created with the Software (MyTrain) belong to the Licensee, who alone is responsible for the data used and for compliance with the terms of the underlying third-party models (clause 4.2).

3.Provision and Updates

3.1 The conditions of provision, in particular consideration and scope, are agreed separately. The Licensor's aim is cooperation with partners for the further development of the Software and for new projects.

3.2 Updates of the version series 1.x are provided at the Licensor's sole discretion. There is no entitlement to updates, bug fixes, further development, support or compatibility with future operating systems, devices or data formats. New version series may require a new agreement.

4.Third-Party Components

4.1 The Software contains third-party components under their own licences (Python, OpenCV, NumPy, SciPy, pydicom, Pillow, lxml and others; complete list and licence texts in the file "Drittanbieter-Lizenzen.txt" in the program folder). For the respective component these licences take precedence over this agreement.

4.2 The AI segmentation uses the model weights "Models for Prostate158" (Keno Bressem, Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; doi:10.5281/zenodo.6397057) under the licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). These weights are not part of this agreement; they are downloaded at the first AI call and are available to the Licensee under CC BY 4.0. The Licensee complies with its terms, in particular attribution whenever the weights are passed on.

4.3 The optional AI environment (PyTorch, MONAI and further libraries) is downloaded from the internet by the installer at the Licensee's request. It is not part of the delivery, is subject to the licences of its providers, and its availability is not owed.

5.Warranty

5.1 The Software is provided "as is". The Licensor gives no warranty for correctness, completeness, availability, fitness for a particular purpose, freedom from defects, compatibility or for the results of segmentation, lesion scoring, ADC computation, reports and simulation.

5.2 The Licensee has tested the Software for suitability with the free OPEN test edition before use; the properties of the test edition are the agreed quality. Samples, descriptions and statements on the website are not warranties.

5.3 Where a warranty cannot be excluded by law, it is limited, at the Licensor's option, to repair or replacement. Defects must be notified in writing and comprehensibly within 14 days of becoming recognisable, otherwise claims are excluded. The burden of proof that a defect existed at delivery lies with the Licensee; the presumption of section 924 of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB) is excluded.

6.Liability

6.1 The Licensor's liability for slight negligence is excluded. This does not apply to personal injury.

6.2 To the extent permitted by law there is no liability for consequential damage, indirect damage, lost profit, loss of data, business interruption, third-party claims, or damage resulting from incorrect or omitted medical decisions based on output of the Software.

6.3 To the extent permitted by law, liability is in any case limited in amount to the typical, foreseeable damage and at most to what the Licensee has provided for the provision of the Software; where the Software is provided free of charge, liability is excluded.

6.4 The Licensee indemnifies the Licensor against all claims of third parties, including patients, authorities and payers, arising from the use of the Software or its output by the Licensee or by persons to whom the Licensee has granted access, including reasonable costs of legal defence.

6.5 Claims for damages against the Licensor become time-barred six months after knowledge of the damage and the liable party, and at the latest two years after the damaging event.

7.Data and Data Protection

7.1 The Software works locally and transmits no data to the Licensor, except for the administrative data of an activation request (e-mail address, request code, program language, Windows computer name and marker file with counter and time; the Licensor's server processes the IP address in doing so). No patient data are transmitted; details are set out in the privacy policy. The Licensee is the sole controller within the meaning of the GDPR for all patient data processed, for reports, exports, backups, access protection and deletion.

7.2 The Licensee is responsible for backing up their data. The Licensor is not liable for loss of data.

7.3 For enquiries and support the Licensee transmits no personal patient data; log files and screenshots must be checked and cleaned beforehand.

8.Term and Termination

8.1 The licence is valid indefinitely for the version series 1.x, subject to clause 8.2.

8.2 On any breach of this agreement the licence terminates immediately and without further notice. The Licensee must then uninstall the Software without delay and delete all copies. Further claims of the Licensor remain reserved.

8.3 The Licensor may at any time request proof of the licensed workstations; the Licensee provides written information within 14 days.

9.Final Provisions

9.1 The Software is licensed exclusively to entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals and research or educational institutions, not to consumers. It is not supplied for use in patient care; that would require a conformity assessment (CE) first.

9.2 Austrian law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the conflict-of-law rules of private international law. Place of jurisdiction is the competent court at the Licensor's seat; the Licensor may also sue the Licensee at the Licensee's general place of jurisdiction.

9.3 Amendments and side agreements require written form; this also applies to any waiver of this written-form requirement. General terms and conditions of the Licensee do not apply, even if they are not expressly objected to.

9.4 Should a provision be or become invalid, the remainder of the agreement remains valid; the invalid provision is replaced by the valid provision that comes closest to its economic purpose.

9.5 This agreement exists in a German and an English version; in case of discrepancies the German version prevails.

Dr. Herbert Schuster - deepnet.at - kontakt@deepnet.at

2Terms of use (demo)

PROSTATE COMMANDER OPEN - TERMS OF USE OF THE TEST EDITION
Version 1.3 - Stand 14.10.2026

1. The test edition "OPEN" of Prostate Commander (Dr. Herbert Schuster, deepnet.at, the "Provider") is made available free of charge and exclusively for trial purposes. It is limited to 30 PIRADS computations and deletes its working folders with the loaded image data at program end. The following remain stored in the program folder: the reports created by the user (folder "Reports", with patient name) and, in the folder "daten", the settings, the log, the user's corrections including the examination identifier, anonymous learning examples and the case register. The activation status and the computation counter are stored computer-wide and remain even after uninstallation. The unlock of the program on a computer is limited to three months; afterwards the software loads no examination until the Provider issues a new unlock key. There is no entitlement to provision, renewal, updates, support or continuation; the Provider may discontinue or change the test edition at any time. By installing or using the software the user declares unreserved acceptance of these terms.

2. The software is a research and development tool, not a medical device within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, not CE-certified and not intended for clinical diagnosis, treatment decisions or patient care. Every output (segmentation, lesion marking, score, report, simulation) is a technical suggestion without medical validity; the medical assessment rests solely with the user. Use for clinical diagnosis, treatment decisions or patient care is prohibited. The user ensures that the trial is permissible in their environment.

3. The following are prohibited: passing on, renting, selling, making publicly available, use for third parties, decompiling, disassembling and reverse engineering beyond what is mandatorily permitted by law, any circumvention or alteration of the computation counter and other technical protection measures, removal of notices, and use of the software or its output for competing products. The software is protected by copyright; the source code is not provided. The designation "OPEN" does not constitute an open-source licence.

4. The software contains third-party components under their own licences (file "Drittanbieter-Lizenzen.txt" in the program folder). The AI segmentation uses the model weights "Models for Prostate158" (Keno Bressem, Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin; doi:10.5281/zenodo.6397057) under CC BY 4.0; the user complies with its terms. The optional AI environment is downloaded from the internet at the user's request and is not part of the delivery.

5. The software is provided "as is"; every warranty is excluded. The Provider's liability for slight negligence is excluded, except for personal injury. To the extent permitted by law there is no liability for consequential damage, loss of data, lost profit, third-party claims and damage resulting from medical decisions based on output of the software. The user indemnifies the Provider against all third-party claims arising from the use of the software or its output, including reasonable costs of legal defence.

6. The software works locally and transmits no data to the Provider, except for the administrative data of an activation request (e-mail address, request code, program language, Windows computer name and marker file with counter and time; the Provider's server processes the IP address in doing so). Details are set out in the privacy policy. The user is the sole controller within the meaning of the GDPR for all patient data processed and transmits no personal patient data to the Provider.

7. On any breach of these terms the right of use terminates immediately; the software must then be uninstalled without delay. Austrian law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; place of jurisdiction is the competent court at the Provider's seat. The test edition is provided only to entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals and research or educational institutions, not to consumers. In case of discrepancies between the German and the English version the German version prevails.

8. Prostate Commander is a pilot demonstrating the power of hybrid software development through interaction between expert and agentic AI - a fully working piece of software for the applications described, which is not marketed. Enquiries about development projects for other fields: deepnet.at.

Dr. Herbert Schuster - deepnet.at - kontakt@deepnet.at

3AI model and third-party components

The AI segmentation uses the model weights “Models for Prostate158” by Keno Bressem (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin), doi:10.5281/zenodo.6397057, licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The weights are downloaded at the first AI call and remain under their own licence; weights retrained with MyTrain are adaptations of this model. Reference: Adams LC, Makowski MR, Engel G et al. Prostate158 – An expert-annotated 3T MRI dataset and algorithm for prostate cancer detection. Comput Biol Med 2022;148:105817.

The AI super-resolution of the display uses the model weights of Real-ESRGAN (Xintao Wang et al., Tencent ARC Lab; BSD 3-Clause License, Copyright (c) 2021 Xintao Wang). The network architecture is re-implemented in the application; the weights are loaded on first use and act solely on the image display, never on calculations. Reference: Wang X, Xie L, Dong C, Shan Y. Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data. ICCV Workshops 2021.

The smooth transition when paging (AI in-between frames, display only) uses the model weights and network architecture of RIFE v4.17 (Zhewei Huang et al.; MIT License) in the version of vs-rife (HolyWu; MIT License). The generated in-between frames are not measured anatomy and never enter any calculation. Reference: Huang Z, Zhang T, Heng W, Shi B, Zhou S. Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation. ECCV 2022.

All third-party components (Python, OpenCV, NumPy, SciPy, pydicom, Pillow, lxml, h5py, Nuitka runtime, optional AI environment with PyTorch and MONAI, and others) with complete licence texts: Drittanbieter-Lizenzen.txt (also accompanies every installation)