An arrangement that provides protection to the business should the software provider go out of business or discontinue support and/or maintenance for the licensed software. In the event of such an occurrence, the licensee gets the source code of the software. This may be more important in a SaaS or cloud environment where, if the software vendor goes out of business, the data may be lost as well.
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