Compensated -- Conditions

Compensated Usage

We distinguish several categories of users. If a user is in more than one category, then the most stringent conditions of those categories applies.

Passive users

They use the W3 to access information but do not themselves provide any W3 support nor do they make data available to themselves or to the W3 user community.

Rule: these users pay a nominal fee per installed copy of browser modules. See price list in appendix A (page 6).

Information providers

They use W3 and make available data. There are two categories:

Providers of free information:

Rule: If the information is freely available on the public Internet, then there is no fee for use of the software as long as the information is maintained. If maintenace is stopped, for whatever reason, CERN reserves the right to reclassify the user as a passive user. The rights include all modules available from CERN.

Users in closed systems:

Rule: If W3 is used within a closed company or organisation, providing no service to the outside, then that organisation should pay a reasonable commercial fee.

Condition: any set consisting of one browser type, one server type and one gateway: single license 500 ECU, site license up to 500 users: 25 kECU, higher to be negotiated.

Developers

These are companies who want to incorporate part or all of the W3 software into their own products, which they then resell.

Rule: Compensation should always be made. A license will always be non-exclusive.

Condition: one of three standard options can be negotiated for compensation:

in payment, at 20% of CERN development cost, currently 100 kECU,
in kind, as a site-wide license for the product, if this is of interest to CERN,
in kind, by manpower contribution to the software effort, consisting in at least six months qualified programmer effort on the CERN site.

Academic and Educational Government Bodies of non-member states

These are large bodies who can benefit from W3 in the running of their internal information systems, but have no commercial goals.

Rule: These bodies should be treated as developers. However, they will usually be able asnd willing to contribute to the W3 consortium by providing manpower or computing resources to strengthen the W3 project.

Conditions: as for developers.