Overview

There are two license types available under which the Bernese GNSS Software can be obtained: research and commercial. The main distinction between these license types is the intended use of the software and the results obtained:

• The research license does not allow any commercial use of the software and results obtained with it.
  This license type is appropriate for universities or other institutions engaged in scientific research and education activities.
• The commercial license does allow commercial use of the software and results obtained with it.
  This license type is appropriate for companies or agencies, which intend to use the software and results obtained with it in commercial activities.
  The commercial license is available in two versions, unlimited and limited.
  The limit concerns the maximum possible number of parallel running processes, which is limited to 8 under the limited license, and unlimited otherwise.

Licenses are permanent, they do not expire. Licenses may be upgraded (e.g. from limited to unlimited, or from research to commerical. See the following sections for the procedure to acquire a new license or for upgrading existing licenses.

Research users

For research users we offer the software under the conditions described in this document (PDF).

• To obtain a new license and the current version of the software as a new user, please fill both forms:
  1. Order form (PDF) to order the software.
     In case your institution requires its own forms for purchases, we accept this as well.
     and
  2. EULA (PDF) to accept the EULA for using the Bernese GNSS Software.
  
  
• To upgrade your existing version of Bernese to the current one, use the software upgrade form (PDF) (no license change).
  
• To request a license change from research to one of the commerical license types, use the license change form (PDF). You will also have to accept the new EULA for commercial users (PDF).

Commercial users

For commercial users we offer the software under the conditions described in this document (PDF)

• To obtain a new license and the current version of the software as a new user, please fill both forms:
  1. Order form (PDF) to order the software.
     In case your institution requires its own forms for purchases, we accept this as well.
     and
  2. EULA (PDF) to accept the EULA for using the Bernese GNSS Software.
  
  
• To upgrade your existing version of Bernese to the current one, use the software upgrade form (PDF) (no license change).
  
• To request a change of your current limited commercial license to unlimited, use the license change form (PDF).

Notes

• The forms have to be signed by an authorized person of your institution and returned to the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern in electronic form. After we receive the signed form(s) we issue the invoice and deliverables.
• The software will be delivered via a file share service as an iso file, approx 1.5 Gb in size.
  
• Contact us prior to ordering in case you require physical shipment software, shipping charges apply.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding ordering or upgrading the Bernese GNSS Software, please contact us by email at Bernese Sales Support.

Postal address:
Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern
Sidlerstrasse 5
CH-3012 Bern

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