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Licensing

SAS Software licenses are leased on a fiscal year basis. License fees grant you the Right To Use (RTU) the software on one computer for the current fiscal year which runs from September 1 through August 31 of the following calendar year. License fees are not pro-rated, and do not include installation media. You must purchase a license for each computer on which the software will be installed.

NOTE: Any CPU that will be running SAS for Unix must be licensed. The license fee is the same whether the system is a server or a workstation.

Fee Structure (Windows, Linux)

You must purchase one (1) SAS Annual License Fee for each computer that will be running SAS software regardless of how many licenses you purchased last year. Beginning Fall 2005, there is no longer a distinction made between New and Renewal licenses.

Student License Fees (Windows, Linux)

Students can purchase a license for installation on a personally-owned or University-owned computer, and each computer on which the software is installed must be licensed. Although we now no longer require each student to purchase their own installation media, it is strongly recommended.

Faculty, Staff, and Departments must pay a license fee for each system that will be running the SAS software, but are not required to purchase installation media.

Work-At-Home Use (Windows, Linux)

Under the SAS license agreement, work-at-home use is available to faculty and staff who have the SAS software installed on their computer at work. Each employee can use the SAS software at home (as an extension of the work license) provided that the software is not run concurrently on both machines, and use at home cannot exceed 20% of the overall utilization of the product.

Determining how to license Client-Server environments (Windows)

The defining criteria for determining what should be licensed is where the actual software will be executed. The rule is that if any CPU is running SAS it must be licensed.

These are the three different situations to consider when determining what to license:

  1. If you have a server with clients and the clients will be running SAS but not the server, then only the clients need be licensed. An individual license should to be purchased for each client.
  2. If you have a server with clients and the clients will be running SAS and you also allow logins to the server to run SAS, then both the clients and the server must be licensed. Individual licenses as well as a SAS for Windows Server license should be purchased.
  3. If you have a server with clients but you only allow the server to run SAS (i.e. the software is loaded so as not to be accessible directly by a client), then only the server needs to be licensed. A SAS for Windows Server license should be purchased and used in conjunction with Microsoft Windows Terminal Server or Citrix.

Updates and Upgrades

In general, updates/upgrades are available to currently registered users for the cost of duplication and media. ITS will send announcements to current users whenever a new version is available through ITS. 

Information about recent updates will also be posted to the SAS Spotlight page.