University of South Florida

USF Licensed Software

As most everyone is aware, appropriate licensing of all software products installed on all servers and workstations is required by law. Failure to strictly adhere to this requirement can place the University in a seriously vulnerable legal position.

The University has negotiated a number of licenses for popular software packages; the following is believed to be a complete list.


Vendor Covered Products Explicitly Not Covered
Microsoft Workstations owned by USF, or
owned by USF Faculty, staff, adjunct faculty and Graduate Assistants
    Covers these and earlier versions:
  • MS BackOffice CAL
  • MS FrontPage 2000
  • MS Office 2000 Pro (Windows)
  • MS Office 2001 Macintosh Edition
  • MS Office Standard (Windows)
  • MS Visual Studio 6.0
  • MSDN Library for Visual Studio 6.0
  • MS Windows OS Upgrades
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT 4.0
  • Step by Step Interactive for Office 2000
  • Anything on computers owned by students other than GA's
  • Any server product (NT Server, Exchange, etc.)
  • The VISIO products
  • Anything not specifically listed as covered
Network Associates
(McAfee)
  • VirusScan
  • GroupShield
  • NetShield
  • GroupShield or NetShield on computers other than USF servers
Hummingbird Workstations owned by USF,
or owned by USF Faculty
  • Host Explorer
  • Anything on computers owned by students
  • Anything not specifically listed as covered
Maple Workstations owned by USF,
or owned by USF Faculty
  • Maple
  • Anything on computers owned by students
Matlab 100 floating licenses covering
workstations owned by USF,
or owned by USF Faculty
  • Simulink
  • Communications
  • Control System
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Image Processing
  • Neural Network
  • Optimization
  • Signal Processing
  • Splines
  • Statistics
  • System Identification
  • Wavelets
  • Anything on computers owned by students
  • More than 100 simultaneous users
SAS College servers;
open-use labs 		Individual users' computers, unless the individual has purchased their own education license
SPSS College servers;
Tampa Campus open-use labs 		Individual users' computers, unless the individual has purchased their own education license

Free Software

Many vendors make available software free to education users, to individual or non-commercial users, or just plain free to anyone (freeware). Some notable products free to the USF user community is listed here. Note that these are not covered by a site license.

VendorProducts
Adobe
  • Acrobat Reader
Microsoft
  • Internet Explorer
  • Outlook Express
Netscape
  • Communicator
  • Navigator
Secure Shell
(ssh)
  • OpenSSH
  • MacSSH

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