edit-on Pro Licensing Terms and Conditions

RealObjects offers three different models of licensing the edit-on Pro authoring tools: Seat License (formerly know as "Standard License"), Enterprise Site License and CPU License.

Please review also the edit-on Pro Licensing FAQs to find out which type of license fits best to your installation. Besides that, you can also use our "Purchasing Wizard", which will guide you towards the correct license through a series of questions. IMPORTANT: The wizard is a pre-selection  process which will not trigger any order. Besides that, the wizard will not ask for any personal information. So please feel free to use the wizard without any objections.

CPU License Use the Software in an Intranet/Extranet, or over Internet installation with non-anonymous or anonymous users. The use is limited to the number of CPU licenses bought with/for the Software. One CPU license is required for each CPU of the server(s) running your application/system which embeds edit-on Pro. It does not matter how edit-on Pro is technically separated from your application/system. Regardless of where or how edit-on Pro is loaded, all CPUs that serve the application/system which embeds edit-on Pro have to be licensed. The CPU License is valid for 1 (one) CPU, and licenses for additional CPUs can be bought in license packs with 1 (one) CPU license each. A CPU license includes access for an unlimited number of users to connect from either inside the corporate local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), or outside the firewall. For detailed information please review the "CPU definition" within the edit-on Pro Software License Agreement.

The CPU license also matches the needs of Application Service Providers (ASP). An ASP is a service firm which deploys, manages, and delivers application capabilities to multiple entities from a data center, across a wide area network, and/or through centrally-located server(s) in a "rental" or lease agreement.

Enterprise Site License Use the Software in an Intranet/Extranet or over the Internet with non-anonymous users, e.g. authenticated, closed user groups. The Enterprise Site License permits (i) an unlimited number of users to use the Software from any personal computer or computer terminal within the site facilities, including those attached to a Local Area Network on the Licensed Site; and (ii) a limited number of users (≤ 10% of the actual number of on-site users) to use the Software from personal computers or computer terminals connected to the Licensed Site through a Wide Area Network and/or by any form of remote or telecommunication access. The Enterprise Site License is valid only for 1 (one) Site (= geographical location = single physical site, not website) within 1 (one) organization/company/firm, but without user limitation. For detailed information please review the "Site definition" within the edit-on Pro Software License Agreement.

Seat License (formerly know as "Standard License") Use the Software in an Intranet/Extranet, or over the Internet with non-anonymous users, e.g. authenticated, closed user groups. A user counts as an edit-on Pro user when he or she has access to edit-on Pro, within or through an information system. The Seat License is valid only for 1 (one) organization/company/firm. The Seat License Pack includes 10 (ten) Named User. Licenses for additional users can be bought in Seat License Packs with 10 (ten) Named User each. The number of users is limited through the number of Seat License Packs  bought. For detailed information please review the edit-on Pro Software License Agreement.

Named User means "Non-Concurrent User" or "User Seat" within one organization/company/firm. A Named User is one person/user/author with access rights to edit-on Pro in any form. All Named User may use edit-on Pro concurrently (= simultaneously) or non-concurrently (= non-simultaneously). The Seat License is NOT a 'floating' license, that is, you cannot temporarily transfer access rights to another user. When your user base grows to the point that you have the 11th, 21st etc. unique Named User, you need to purchase additional Seat License Packs (10 Named User) to cover the new user seats.

The 1-Year Support & Maintenance Pack entitles you to receive priority technical support and all maintenance releases or updates or upgrades for the duration of the support period. It is available at the time of purchase of a license or upgrade at the cost of 20% of the software license fee. You can renew the 1-Year Support & Maintenance Pack until the end of the subscription period. The cost of renewing is 20% of the software license fee on the renewal date.

RealObjects will provide you with an unlock key (licensekey.xml) which enables the use of the edit-on Pro software license. The information contained in the unlock key will include the following: Type of license, number of licensed seats, the licensed geographical site or the number of licensed CPUs. During  the online purchase process or within your written purchase order you might also have to provide the names of the server(s) on which edit-on Pro will be installed. RealObjects further reserves the right to introduce and use appropriate license enforcement techniques in its software, which are designed to prevent illegal use or distribution of its software. The license enforcement techniques (currently for Seat Licenses only) might require activation of the software license. This may require establishing a temporary network connection to a RealObjects web service. RealObjects reserves all rights to modify the license enforcement techniques used in the its software at any time.

You can also download the current edit-on Pro Java Applet Pricelist.