What is the Microsoft Campus License Agreement (CLA)?
It’s a licensing program from Microsoft targeted toward higher education institutions, designed to help them effectively acquire Microsoft products. Microsoft originally developed this model of licensing in 1998 and since then many universities have taken advantage of the program for faculty/staff use. The CLA program basically allows the university to pay a “per-head” amount and then be able to have any of its faculty and staff use the software, and then there are addendums to the program that allows universities to license their student populations as well. LSU now has coverage, under the new CLA, for faculty, staff and students.
Related Questions
- If a school enters into a Microsoft Academic Volume Licensing Agreement (Campus, School, Open, Select), does that mean it is licensed for a full Microsoft operating system, such as Windows?
- What if I have purchased MSDN licenses through a Volume License Agreement, as well as through my membership in the Microsoft Partner Program?
- What is the Microsoft Campus Agreement, is this some sort of Site License?
