I am reading a license agreement and there is a strange combination of words for me as I am not a native English speaker. The direct quote is here:
If you are a direct competitor, and you access or use the software for purposes of competitive benchmarking, analysis, or intelligence gathering, you waive as against Microsoft, its subsidiaries, and its affiliated companies (including prospectively) any competitive use, access, and benchmarking test restrictions in the terms governing your software to the extent your terms of use are, or purport to be, more restrictive than Microsoft’s terms.
I have googled, what "waive" means and found:
to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors. Law. to relinquish (a known right, interest, etc.) intentionally. to put aside for the time; defer; postpone; dispense with: to waive formalities.
I can suppose that the whole sentence means that: "if you use the software for competitive benchmarking - you give up to Microsoft any competitive use"
, but I am not sure. Especially when the prase is "waive as against"
. Clearly, it's some legal stamp, but it would be nice if someone could explain it more clearly.