CDF Licensing Options

FreeCDF™

Computable Document Format (CDF) is a public format. Under the Wolfram FreeCDF terms of use, your CDF documents along with their content carry the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC BY-SA). By using any Wolfram product to deploy your work as FreeCDF, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of this license.

Attribution Requirements

FreeCDF files require attribution as follows:

Citation of the name of the original work and its creator
Identification of the work as FreeCDF, as carried by the Wolfram marks conveyed with
the Wolfram CDF Player
For any reuse or redistribution of a CDF document, a statement of the license terms that
apply to the work

EnterpriseCDF™

EnterpriseCDF is ideal for organizations deploying production-level projects or creating CDF deliverables for their customers. It provides small- to mid-sized organizations with the ability to distribute enhanced CDFs internally.

Contact us to discuss options to customize your Mathematica Enterprise Edition for deploying CDF within a large organization, for publishing, or for content distribution outside your organization.

Benefits of EnterpriseCDF

CDF files deployed by Mathematica Enterprise Edition allow for additional features not supported by FreeCDF, such as:

Importing/exporting live data
Linking to Java and R
Source-code encryption
Custom dialogs and other spawned documents

Compare features of FreeCDF, EnterpriseCDF, and Mathematica »

General CDF Use Cases

	FreeCDF	EnterpriseCDF
Distributed publicly for free or purchase, as governed by the Creative Commons license
Distributed publicly for free or purchase, with all rights reserved
Removal of Wolfram branding elements
Enhanced capabilities, including import/export of live data, arbitrary input fields, dialog windows, and file saving

A Guide to CDF Licensing Options

Business Intelligence	FreeCDF	EnterpriseCDF
Internal reports, presentations, and dashboards
Private client reports and presentations
Reports, presentations, and dashboards distributed publicly and share-alike
Reports, presentations, and dashboards sold by subscription with restrictions on redistribution of content
Blogs and News Media	FreeCDF	EnterpriseCDF
CDF content distributed publicly and share-alike
CDF content with access restricted, for example, via a subscription portal (paywall)
Education	FreeCDF	EnterpriseCDF
CDF-based courses and knowledge apps distributed publicly and share-alike
Quizzes, homework assignments, and syllibi for personal classroom use
CDF or Wolfram Demonstrations-based education packages marketed to schools and school districts that are rights-protected under a license other than FreeCDF
Software Development and Industry R&D	FreeCDF	EnterpriseCDF
Internally distributed and private client application prototypes
Standalone applications distributed publicly and share-alike
Rights-protected applications

	FreeCDF
Publishing
CDF ebook or app distributed publicly and share-alike
CDF ebook or app with content that is rights-protected under a license other than FreeCDF
CDF access restricted via a subscription portal (paywall)
Commercial use of and deep linking to Wolfram Demonstrations