The RWTH's Adobe ETLA for Desktop agreement was concluded in 2016 and has been extended several times: in 2019 (as “ETLA Point Consortium”), from 2022 to 2025 (as “ETLA Point Consortium”), and since November 26, 2025 (as “Adobe ETLA”) until September 25, 2029.

Such licenses are rental licenses, which means that a license is valid starting from the point of time when it was ordered (on an exact monthly basis) up to the end of the framework license agreement. Therefore, it offers the option to upgrade your purchased software to the latest version during the license period.

The data processing agreement (AVV) is a part of the framework agreement between the RWTH and Adobe.

Further information about the Adobe ETLA Point Consortium contract can be found on the following pages.

Vendor terms and information

Adobe range is subject to terms and conditions set forth in the Adobe Enterprise Term License Agreement, Adobe's General Terms of Use, and product-specific terms and conditions. 

The most important terms habe been published by Adobe: https://www.adobe.com/de/legal/terms/enterprise-licensing/cc-product-terms.html

These are supplemented by the agreement we have concluded. The agreement is available for the members of the RWTH on the following page (within the RWTH network):https://software.itc.rwth-aachen.de/Lizenzvertraege/Adobe

Alternative Adobe products

Please check the following page for an overview of alternative products.