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      Licensing Definitions

      Developers

      Developers are the count of Individuals or Development Machines that will use, compile, or run any Iron Product code with a debugger attached over a rolling 30-day window. 

      • This only applies to development, meaning staging, production servers, or end-user targets do not count
      • An employee with two machines (e.g.: one at home and one at the office) will count as two developers
      • Contract developers and work-from-home developers are counted

      Locations

      Locations, counted by city, where your projects are being developed.

      • Two offices in the same city count as one location.
      • Unlimited locations available on Unlimited Monthly or Unlimited Enterprise, or adding Royalty-free Redistribution coverage to Team licenses

        Projects

        The total historical count of Projects produced using a single Iron Product license key.

        • 1 Project = Each Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider, or other IDE project
        • 1 Project = Each website, domain, or subdomain
        • 1 Project = Each microservice (including Azure and Lambda functions)

        Royalty-Free Redistribution Option

        Required for packaged products or subscription services.

        • SaaS - a subscription service (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
        • OEM - packaged software products or distributable files (software, app, executable, etc.)
        • Royalty-free Redistribution also extends location coverage to unlimited locations

        License Types

        Lite

        • Team or IronSuite license
        • Coverage for one legal organization - cannot be used by partner or subsidiary companies
        • 1 developer, at 1 location, working on 1 project
        • Not suitable for Redistribution What does this mean?

        Plus

        • Team or IronSuite license
        • Up to 3 developers total, in 3 locations, working no more than 3 projects
        • Coverage for one legal organization - cannot be used by partner or subsidiary companies
        • Redistribution is available (with Royalty-free Redistribution Add-On)
        • Royalty-free Redistribution also extends location coverage to unlimited locations.

        Professional

        • Team or IronSuite license
        • Varying coverage is available for 10/25/50 or 100 developers, locations, and projects
        • Coverage for one legal organization - cannot be used by partner or subsidiary companies
        • Royalty-free Redistribution is available (with Royalty-free Redistribution Add-On)
        • Royalty-free Redistribution also extends location coverage to unlimited locations

        Unlimited Monthly

        • IronSuite license includes Royalty-free Redistribution coverage
        • No contract Monthly renewal for 10,000 API calls
        • No developer number restrictions
        • No location number restrictions
        • No project number restrictions
        • Coverage for one legal organization - can be used by partner or subsidiary companies

        Unlimited Enterprise

        • IronSuite license includes Royalty-free Redistribution coverage
        • Recommended for governments and financial institutions
        • No developer number restrictions
        • No location number restrictions
        • No project number restrictions
        • Coverage for one legal organization - can be used by partner or subsidiary companies