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A licence is the right to install a certain software in a certain computer and it is independent from possessing an installation CD for the software or access to the server’s folder.

If a user acquires a licence of use for a programme, he/she can only install the programme in one computer. In order to install the programme in diverse computers it is necessary to acquire as many licences as computers there are to install it in.

Although the user has the possibility of generating an installation CD for the product, he/she can only install it in computers with a licence.

To sum up, having a CD does not mean having licence to use it.

Campus Licences
Generally, a campus licence is a contract or agreement subscripted between a software manufacturer and the University by which a licence to use a product is obtained in all University computers.

Despite the fact that a product’s licence with campus licence does not mean any cost for the final user or the department/centre, it cannot be considered as free distribution software as the University has paid the price to have the licences and all users.
Campus licences facilitate license managing, erasing piracy within the institution and reducing the cost to acquire a licence.

The University of Valencia has the following campus licences contracted:

Microsoft

Campus Licences are an easy agreement to rent a software which allows the University to use Microsoft’s products in all computers during one or three years. The licence agreement is signed between the University and Microsoft and involves an authorised who will be the responsible for logistics. The University pays a yearly tax which depends on two factors: the number of professors and staff members who are employed for over 200 hours per year and the products the licence is for.

Campus licences supply the University with a series of important benefits among which we find:

  • Budget control and saving. The price of Campus Licence is known in advance and it is fixed for a year. As it includes unlimited licences for all computers in the University, any new necessity that comes up in any centre or department would be covered.
  • Elimination of piracy Campus Licence completely eliminates piracy and allows fomenting the use of legal software among teachers and students.
  • Great simplification of the current process. Through the Campus Licence we eliminate the report on installed licences and, on the other hand, the licenced software can supply the whole University in Intranet.
  • Instantaneous access to software. Right when the Campus Licence is signed, you will receive a CD-ROM when the products acquired are Windows Pro or Office Pro. Campus Licence gives the right to immediately copy and use its programmes in any University computer in a way that there will always be access to the software whenever and wherever it is needed. This way, there is no need to look for new budgets. The rest of the products do not include physical support.
  • Protecting the inversion As long as the contract lasts, the Campus Licence gives right to update the latest available version for the acquired version.

Rights of Use
See the Rights of Use in Microsoft’s Campus Licences

Included Products
Primary products:

  • Microsoft Office Professional edition
  • Microsot FrontPage
  • Microsoft Office Macintosh edition
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional (updates)
  • Client’s Access Licence (Core CAL)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Professional

Server Products

  • Microsoft Windows Server Standard
  • Microsoft SQL Server Standard
  • Microsoft Windows Advanced Server

As long as the contract lasts, new version of all products that appear or any former version of the included software, in any available language in the Macintosh or Windows versions are included.

12 Months / 36 Months Validity

This Campus Licence contract allows to execute the licenced software during a period of 12 or 36 months and licences for updates and restoration of former software versions during the contract’s validity.

Rights of use for teachers at home

All school’s professors, to the maximum limit of qualified computers, have the right to execute a copy of the software during the validity period of the contract, for school activities only, in a laptop or a desktop computer they own or rent.

McAfee Antivirus

The University of Valencia holds a campus licence contract for the Mcafee product which allows to simultaneously use a certain number of computers.

Mathematica

The University holds a software lease agreement for three years with the programme Mathematica, which allows its use, in an unlimited number of computers, and in any update of the product.
In order to use the product it is necessary to register in the Mathematica manager WEB, Wolfram, to obtain the intalation data. For more information, check the help page of the Mathematica product in the software catalogue.
It is also possible to use the licence server of the University due to the fact that it serves the Mathematica licences.

Matlab

The University of Valencia holds a campus licence contract for the Matlab product of The MathWorks which allows to simultaneously use a certain number of computers. In order to control this licence system the University’s licence server is used.

SPSS

The University holds a yearly renewable contract with the enterprise Statistical Product and Service Solutions Ibérica, S.L. in which the right to use the statistical SPSS programme is set for all user PDI (Teaching and Research Staff) from the University of Valencia.

ChemOffice

The University of Valencia has contracted a campus licence with CambridgeSoft by which the use of the ChemOffice product is allowed for all University’s staff and students. The only requisite is obtain one license in software.uv.es

For more information, we recommend to read the Rights of Use of ChemOffice document.