The following excerpts describing selected commercial software licenses illustrate the variations in terms among software developers and the trend in the industry to adapt license conditions to the way people work. In addition, the license sets out the rules for concurrent use on a computer network. To comply with the concurrent license, adequate controls and mechanisms must be in place to ensure that a network has at least as many licenses as there are users of the product at any one time. Electronic or manual controls or procedures are required to justify the calculation of the number of licenses. Claris software is licensed to an individual user and accommodates users who work on more than one computer.
Customers can choose their preferred metering software.
WordPerfect's new licensing policy allows people who buy single software packages to make a copy on a home or travel computer with the stipulation that both copies never be used at the same time. However, this new policy does not apply to most software purchased for use at the University. WordPerfect Corp. feels that because educational pricing is extended to faculty, staff, and students to purchase software for personal use, the home and travel use provision of the new license agreement does not apply to these discounted pro-ducts.