

Example 3: A Fortune 500 ISV is working on a mobile application which is released under the Open Source Institute (OSI)-approved open source software licenses.Since the agency is a contractor developing this application for the Fortune 500 firm, and since the application is not an open source project, the agency cannot use Visual Studio Community 2013 for developing and testing the application. The agency has 5 employees working on the project and would like to use Visual Studio Community 2013. The application is not an open source project. Example 2: A Fortune 500 firm has outsourced the development of its store-locator mobile application to a small agency.

However Visual Studio Community 2013 cannot be used for developing and testing its internal LOB applications. Visual Studio Community 2013 use is allowed by academic institutions for classroom learning environment and academic research and hence the University can use the software for its coursework and the research project. Further the University also plans to customize its ERP software and automate processes through its internal LOB applications. “Example 1: A University wants to use Visual Studio Community 2013 for training students enrolled in the “Data structures and Programming” course and for a “Big Data” academic research project that requires building a cross-platform mobile application.In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.” ( source) For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community.An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

