Licensing

Community Edition

Saurus CMS Community Edition is open source and licensed as MPL 1.1. You can freely use, distribute and sell it. Check further at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php.

Enterprise Edition

Saurus CMS Enterprise Edition uses commercial license which grants the holder a right to use the software for one website and installation. The license does not limit time, number of users, content volume or transferred data amounts.

License key

You need a license key to install Saurus CMS Enterpise Edition or any commercial add-on. The key is a string in format of “XX-XXXX-XXXXX” which is associated with information about the licensee and the product/modules.

License verification

You can enter the key during the installation process or afterwards from Admin > Help > About > License.

License verification process connects to Saurus’ license server and downloads an encrypted string which defines the enabled product/modules for the installation. This process assumes that your server is connected to the Internet. The verification is done only once, so you can disconnect your server afterwards.

Site addresses

Since commercial license is per website and installation, the site URL is stored in the database during the verification. You can log in to editor environment only from that URL afterwards. When you move the site to new location, for example from development environment to live address, Saurus has to release the license after which it should be re-verified. Write a short message to saurus@saurus.info to release a license.

The site URL is checked only when you log in as editor or administrator. For public view you can use any URL’s. For example if you verified the license for www.website.com, it can still be seen from website.com, www.website.info or any other address you might have.