Enterprise Source Licensing Program
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 | Overview |
| Benefits |
| Program Details |
| Customer Commitment |
| Questions |
Overview
The Enterprise Source Licensing Program (ESLP) is a no-cost program that licenses Microsoft® Windows® source code to enterprise customers and state and local government organizations in eligible geographic markets. Any organization that meets the specified criteria—and signs the source licensing agreements may access Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, and Windows Server™ 2003 operating system source code.
Benefits
Access to Microsoft source code through the ESLP benefits enterprise customers by:
| • | Providing insight and a deeper understanding of Windows. |
| • | Facilitating security and privacy audits and maintenance of customer's computing environment. |
| • | Enhancing performance tuning, thereby allowing customers to adjust and optimize their own systems and related applications. |
| • | Enhancing the pre-deployment engineering process for enterprise environments. |
| • | Improving internal support and troubleshooting capabilities of deployed Windows systems. |
| • | Improving the feedback mechanisms that ultimately contribute to the development of better Microsoft customer solutions and tools for the future. |
Program Details
The ESLP provides a mechanism for delivering source code for released versions and service packs of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
Products Include
| • | Personal, Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter versions. |
| • | Both x86 and IA64 builds for Windows XP. |
| • | Service packs and other releases. |
Use and Restrictions
| • | Licensees may use the source code for the sole purpose of assisting in the support and development of internally deployed products for the Microsoft Windows platform, ongoing support of Microsoft Windows deployments, and internal security audits of the Microsoft Windows operating system. |
| • | Source code may not be used to assist with the development of a commercially distributed product. |
| • | Licensees may read and reference the source code but may not modify it. |
| • | The license term is one year. |
Eligibility Requirements:
| • | Be a state /local (or similar) government organization in an eligible geographic market OR maintain 1,500 Windows seats (Windows 2000 or above) under one of the following:
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| • | Enterprise customers must be headquartered in and access the source from an eligible geographic market. | ||||
| • | Sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement, Master Source Code Agreement and License Form. |
Fulfillment
| • | To request participation in this program, interested parties complete the ESLP, SISLP, OEMSLP Enrollment Request Form and submit it to the Shared Source Initiative team. Once the Shared Source Initiative team verifies the enterprise customer is elgible for the program, they provide the licensing agreement. |
| • | Once both parties sign a licensing agreement, the licensee will gain access to the code through the Code Center Premium secure Web site. |
| • | All source code updates are provided by Microsoft through Code Center Premium. |
| • | Code Center Premium offers secure search, view, and just-in-time (JIT) debugging functionality to augment the efficiency and value of source access. |
Customer Commitment
In exchange for obtaining access to one of Microsoft's most valuable assets, Microsoft requests that enterprise customers respect our intellectual property and treat that intellectual property confidentially.
Questions
If you have additional questions regarding this program, please contact your Microsoft sales representative, or e-mail the Shared Source Initiative.