SPSS Site License Agreement with Columbia University

This form is for faculty and staff use only. We are not licensed to sell SPSS to students, please see see the SPSS information page for student licensing details.

• This date is fixed by SPSS and cannot be pro–rated. If you would like to receive an entire year’s usage, you must wait until May 31, 2008 to purchase the following year’s license (6/1/2008 – 5/31/2009).
• In addition, you must verify SPSS version compatibility with your computer(s) prior to ordering.
• SPSS orders cannot be refunded once the online form has been submitted.

SPSS Site License Agreement with Columbia University:

If purchasing a license renewal by FAS only, you can follow the instructions to accept and download the renewal online. It will not be necessary to come to the Information Commons help desk unless you must pick up a software kit(s) or pay by another method where allowed.

When picking up a software kit(s), purchasing a new license, or paying by a method other than FAS account where allowed, it will take 24 hours for your request to be processed. Please wait at least one day after submitting the form, then come to the Information Commons help desk (second floor of the Hammer Library) Monday - Friday, between 9am - 5pm to pick up your software.

SPSS (Windows or Macintosh) is available to faculty and staff at Columbia University through Information Commons. The terms of this site license are as follows:

One copy of SPSS costs $220/year for Windows and $312 for Mac. For group pricing discounts, see SPSS Site License Available. The license is valid for the time period 6/1/07 through 5/31/08. The price is fixed and will not be prorated. It is available for renewal on an annual basis.

New licensees and those upgrading to new versions will be required to purchase at least one copy of the installation kit at a cost of $30.

Payments must be made from a CU FAS account. SPSS is available only to current Columbia University faculty and staff. You must present a valid Columbia ID when picking up your order.

We will accept one FAS account number per group purchase. The group purchase can be licensed under a department or a person, but only one of the two. A list of users and/or Columbia owned computer systems should be provided in addition to the one group licensee. All group purchases must be done at the same time. Group purchases will be charged to one department FAS account number and one licensee per group.

The licensee is not permitted to use SPSS for commercial or profit-making purposes. Its use is restricted to academic or research endeavors which are academic in nature.

The licensee agrees not to copy or permit others to copy the products, in whole or in part.

The licensee agrees to use the products only on machines which are owned by either the licensee or Columbia University and only on the number of machines paid for per this agreement. The licensee further agrees that the products must remain under licensee's control, and that resale or other transfer is explicitly prohibited.

Licensee agrees not to create, or attempt to create, or permit or help others to create, the source code from the products furnished under this agreement. License agrees that it will not reverse engineer or decompile the products.

Documentation is not included in the cost of the site license.

Upon licensee's termination of employment, or if advised by Information Commons that the site license with SPSS Inc. has been terminated, licensee agrees to return to Information Commons or destroy at once any and all copies in the licensee's possession, and to forward written notice to Information Commons that all programs and materials containing the products have been destroyed or deleted from all devices and are no longer in use or usable by the licensee.

Any infringement of the site license agreement becomes the responsibility of the licensee and not Columbia University, i.e. Columbia University shall not be held liable for any direct, indirect, or consequential damages with respect to any claim by the licensee or any third party on account of or arising from this agreement or use of SPSS.