Bilateral Collaboration Agreements Licensing

In certain cases, IT software is made available to third parties through bilateral licensing taking the form of Collaboration Agreements signed between the licensee organization and CERN. The software is generally licensed in source format.

Typical Agreements

The text of the agreement is formulated on a case-by -case basis. A number of usual conditions are however common to all agreements.

A typical collaboration agreement text can be seen here (PDF version)

Cases of Collaboration Agreements

The List of Licensed IT software contains the cases of bilateral collaboration agreements.

Usual conditions part of the CERN Bilateral Collaboration Agreements

CERN Copyright is to be perpetuated

Royalty free license granted to licensee to use, copy, modify the software (case of source)

Modification to be notified to CERN (case of source)

CERN must be granted by the licensee free license to use modified versions (case of source)

Software is only for internal use by the licensee.

In general, no commercial use (case by case basis)

No military use