Overview
The Enterprise Source Licensing Program (ESLP) is a no-cost program that
licenses Microsoft product 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 the available product source code.
Benefits
Access to Microsoft source code through the ESLP benefits enterprise customers by:
Providing insight and a deeper understanding of Microsoft products.
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 the Windows products (client and server).
Products Include
Both x86 and IA64 builds for Windows.
Service packs and other releases.
The source code does not include any third-party code that Microsoft does not have the rights to distribute.
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:
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 eligible 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.
Enterprise customers must be headquartered in and access the source from an eligible geographic market.
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.