Academic Licenses For Manifold System GIS

Academic Licenses cover the current edition of Manifold System GIS only. Academic licenses are donations at no charge and cannot be purchased. These licenses are available only by application directly to Manifold Net.

Donations: To date Manifold has made over $100 million in software grants to universities around the world: many institutions are using our software, provided at no charge, to administer and manage their facilities, to improve the quality of their teaching, to provide new opportunities to students, to support research in many disciplines and even to more effectively raise funds from alumni and other donors. We are committed to providing GIS software at no charge to legitimate universities, colleges and K-12 school districts.

Academic Users: Manifold System is available under a very generous program of Academic License grants which donates, free of charge, Manifold System licenses to qualified academic institutions. The program is best suited for academic institutions that have acquired at least one commercial license of Manifold System. Such institutions are encouraged to apply for an Academic License that will enable use of an effectively unlimited number of Manifold installations at no charge for non-commercial education and research purposes. Academic licensees may even use Manifold to administer academic institutions facilities, fund-raising and other institutional needs.

Fast track approval: The fastest way to obtain an Academic license grant is to use the following procedure to qualify for Fast Track review and approval:

• Acquire any commercial license of Manifold System at the regular price. For example, acquire one copy of Personal Edition at $245.
• Print out two copies of the Academic License agreement on your printer.
• A person authorized to sign contracts for your institution must initial each page of both licenses, and then must sign both copies of the license on the signature page.
• Return both copies in their entirety to manifold.net. Faxes are not acceptable. The entire license must be returned.
• If your application is approved, we will countersign one copy and return it to you and email you that your academic license has been granted.
• The Academic License will grant Ultimate Edition x64 licenses even though only Professional Edition was initially purchased. We want our Academic licensees to have the entire product with all options!
• The Fast Track program grants licenses to two-year and four-year degree granting academic institutions in the United States, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and other countries observing the Treaty of Paris on the protection of intellectual property. It also grants licenses to K-12 school districts in the United States and to the equivalents of K-12 school districts in other countries.

There is no need for special qualification by manifold.net - as a qualified Academic Institution your license becomes operational when we sign it and return it to you. It's that easy!

Please send your signed copies of the Academic License to Academic License Administrator / 1805 North Carson Street, Suite 700 / Carson City, NV 89701 / USA. License processing requires four to eight weeks from the time we receive your signed copies before grant is approved.

Academic License holders are responsible for communicating the availability of Manifold to users throughout their institutions. One objective of the Academic License program is to recruit License holders to actively communicate news of Manifold System throughout their institutions. If you acquire an Academic License and other departments or users within your institution contact manifold.net to purchase Manifold System without realizing that an Academic License is already held by you, those sales will go through and are not refundable.

Academic License holders are responsible for technical support within their institutions. Referral of students or other users to manifold.net for technical support will result in termination of the Academic License.

Very Important: Please take note of the following to avoid delays in the Fast Track processing of your Academic License grant application, a rejection of the application or cancellation of your Manifold license:

• Before submitting the Academic License paperwork, your institution should have purchased at least one copy of Manifold System (any non-runtime edition of the current Release). If your Academic License paperwork is received and our grant department cannot find a record for a previously-acquired qualifying license, the paperwork will be rejected for consideration under the Fast Track program. Do not send your license paperwork with a purchase order at the same time thinking the two will be processed simultaneously, because until the purchase order is paid you do not have a qualifying license and the Academic license request will be rejected.
• The Academic License is not valid until Academic serial numbers have been issued to your institution after manifold.net has received and processed your license. Some academic users think all they need do is buy one copy and then as soon as they mail the Academic License paperwork they can make and use as many copies as they like. That is not true. The qualifying unit purchased initially is a regular commercial license and cannot be shared. If you install it on multiple machines Manifold will sooner or later detect a license violation and will automatically shut down your license. After an Academic license is granted manifold.net will send a block of special Academic serial numbers for your use. These serial numbers have the special property that the same serial number may be used on multiple machines in the same local network and will not cause a license violation reaction.
• Academic licenses are a donation, not an entitlement, made at the sole and exclusive determination of manifold.net. An Academic license application may not be approved if manifold.net chooses not to donate to your institution.
• Although it is true that applications are almost automatically granted, manifold.net reserves the right to decline to donate an Academic license to any particular institution. Any purchase of Manifold software does not guarantee that subsequently an Academic license will be granted upon application, and any paperwork for a purchase that implies an expectation of such a guarantee will not be processed. For example, at times manifold.net will receive a purchase order from a university for an "Academic License" of Manifold System with a purchase price indicated of $245. Such POs will not be processed, as there as no such thing as being able to buy an Academic license.

A note to Academic License holders for prior releases: Your Academic License for releases of Manifold earlier than the current release does not include the current release of Manifold System. To get the current release you must apply to have your Academic License extended to the current release. This does not happen automatically, to avoid wasting resources on providing upgrades to the current release for inactive academic licensees.

FAQ:

Our institution has an Academic License for Release 7x. How do we apply to have it upgraded to an Academic License for the current Manifold System Release? - A person listed as either the administrative contact or the technical contact in your license should email sales@manifold.net with a request to have your license upgraded to the current Manifold System Release.

Does it matter what edition of Manifold System I procure as my qualifying license? - No. Any purchase of Manifold System qualifies an institution for Fast Track application, regardless of what edition or product bundle you choose. No matter what version you initially procure, you end up with an Ultimate Edition Academic license when the Academic license is donated. The presence of a qualifying license allows a more rapid process for granting Academic licenses:

• It indicates that the person applying for an Academic license has experience with the product. Exprience assures a successful deployment and a good match to the needs of the institution.
• It indicates that the person applying has a bona fide position within the organization, as people with no official position usually cannot arrange the procurement of even a single license. Official representation allows a more efficient approval process.

Can our institution apply for an Academic License grant if no previous Manifold license has been acquired? - Yes, although such applications will not be considered under the Fast Track program. Only academic institutions that are degree-granting two year or four year colleges or universities in the United States may apply for an Academic License grant outside of the Fast Track program. Applications for grants that do not qualify for Fast Track consideration are subject to additional requirements. Applications outside of the Fast Track process must file all paperwork required by Fast Track and must also included the following additional materials:

• A detailed description of your intended use of Manifold software for teaching, including the syllabus of courses that will use Manifold software, the number of students who will receive coursework involving Manifold software, the prior years in which such courses have been offered and the names of instructors teaching the courses. This description must evidence awareness of the specific features of Manifold that will be taught.
• Names and professional resumes (including GIS experience) of any academic institution personnel who will be using Manifold or teaching coursework involving Manifold.
• A description of what measures will be taken to ensure availability of Manifold under the Academic License is made known to other departments.
• A description of the technical support plan your institution will adopt to ensure internal technical support for users.
• A statement signed by an officer of the institution that the signatories of the Academic License Agreement on behalf of the instution do have the authority to bind the institution to agreements of that nature.
• Note that the above additional requirements are not necessary for applications received under the Fast Track process. See the Fast track approval section above for information on Fast Track requirements.

Applications for Academic License grants not qualified for Fast Track processing will be reviewed on a "time permitting" basis only after all Fast Track applications have been reviewed. Due to the high volume of Fast Track applications, this may result in substantial delays (six months to a year or more) in processing of applications not submitted under Fast Track qualification. If you choose to apply for an Academic License grant outside of the Fast Track process, please review your application paperwork carefully to make sure you have provided all required materials. If your application is rejected for lack of required materials, you will have to restart the process with a full application re-submission at the end of the wait list for consideration.

Due to the high volume of applications in the Fast Track process, no status of pending applications is available for applications not qualified for Fast Track and no assistance can be provided for applicants outside of the Fast Track process.