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Hi,

I am developing license functionality for my application.
and i am going to use licence types as below.
1)Professional
2)Standard
3)Enterprise
4)free

can any one define them please.


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Nagaraju
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JF2015 wrote:
The definition is definitely up to you!

It's enough answer.
He is absolutely right. It's up to you. You should define the things.

For your information

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Comparison of free software licenses[^]

Here this one is for you(A sample ERP package editions comparison)

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Nuri Ismail 17-Jan-11 10:41am    
Good call.
JF2015 17-Jan-11 10:44am    
Good addition!
If you are looking for suggestions on how you want to order them status wise, I'd say Free would be the simplest version, Standard would be the simplest paid implementation, Professional would be an improvement over Standard and should most likely be feature-filled in a way that will guarantee maximum sales, and Enterprise will be your priciest and probably your lowest selling edition. You can offer students a free upgrade to Standard and perhaps discounts for Professional too. At least, that's a very common approach to licensing, and I assume that's what you were asking about.
 
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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 17-Jan-11 15:23pm    
Good call! 5+
1)Professional - for people that "get it", and want the extra functionality that a professional license would provide.

2)Standard - for people that would like to have a "professional" license, but simply can't afford that version, so they "make do". These are the real developers because they have to find work-arounds for arbitrarily omitted features, like a windows service project template.

3)Enterprise - these guys will pay whatever you're asking, and will take feature lists at face value instead of really seeing if the product delivers. Usually costs 5 times (or more) than the "professional" package, and doesn't actually offer anything m,ore tangible than "three free support incidents, a nebulous benefit at best).

4)free - for cheap bastards that wish they could be real programmers, but since they're living in their parents basement, they spend all of their disposable income on donkey kong updates and jolt cola, therefor leaving little room in the budget that will transform them into anything resembling "useful" as far as society is concerned

These are my definitions, and may not necessarily apply to your outlook on life. make changes appropriate to your own "vision".
 
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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 17-Jan-11 15:27pm    
5+ alone for the definition number 4. :)
2nd and 3rd would also deserve +5 each, but I just ran out of points.
Sorry, we can't help you here. The definition is definitely up to you!
 
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Jan-11 9:44am    
My 5. And the one who vote 3 is an anonymous idiot. (It is not possible to offend an anonymous, right?)
thatraja 17-Jan-11 10:37am    
Good answer Jens.
Nuri Ismail 17-Jan-11 10:40am    
Good answer.
Espen Harlinn 17-Jan-11 11:07am    
5+ He needs a solicitor, not developers
Manfred Rudolf Bihy 17-Jan-11 15:23pm    
Agreed! 5+
Well at least not without additional information, like the complete feature set for instance. :)

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