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AndyB
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05 Oct 2016 : 16:31:30
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How many PC's can I place Easy PC onto?
I have it on one at the moiment and want to install onto my laptop.
Is this OK? |
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DavidM
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Oct 2016 : 17:48:09
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As described in section 4 of our current software license agreement, you can install the software onto another machine as long as you ensure that it is "not used concurrently on more computers or by more users than the number of Licenses granted to the Customer and that the Customer takes the necessary steps to ensure that this number is not exceeded".
So if you have one license, and you are the only person using the software, you can put it onto another machine as you would only be using one machine at a time.
Examples of things you are not allowed to do are: install it on two computers so you can run a complex auto-router task on one while you (the same person) use another copy of software on the other machine to do some interactive editing on another design; or install it on a server for several people to use at the same time when you don't have enough licenses for all those concurrent users.
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AndyB
United Kingdom
208 Posts |
Posted - 16 Oct 2016 : 12:44:34
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Ok
My intentions are to use it on one computer at a time.
But should there be an error on my behalf in which i may leave one computer on by accident when accessing another am I to believe that i would be breaching my contract?
If so what are the consequences of this happening? |
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DavidM
United Kingdom
458 Posts |
Posted - 16 Oct 2016 : 12:50:48
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Hi Andy,
As long as you are happy to put your hand up and confirm that there won't be someone else sat in front of the other computer using the software then the fact that the computer is still on doesn't break your license agreement - even if the software is actually running at the time (other than the restrictions I mentioned before about using the other copy to do 'background work').
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tmd63
United Kingdom
18 Posts |
Posted - 17 Oct 2016 : 09:46:48
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Hi David,
Could you elaborate on the background issue?
What if I had a single user licence installed on an octo-core PC and run EasyPC using 4 cores for a background routing task and then ran EasyPC on the other cores (same PC) to design a different layout? I would be 1 user on 1 PC running 2 tasks. Would that violate the background task issue? I would effectively be running concurrent tasks on the SAME PC by the SAME user. |
Edited by - tmd63 on 17 Oct 2016 09:48:15 |
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DavidM
United Kingdom
458 Posts |
Posted - 17 Oct 2016 : 10:07:54
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Trying not to sail off too far into uncharted territory, multiple instances of the application on one machine are fine, as they are going to be used by one person. We even encourage this for example with dual screen option, allowing you to access the schematic in one instance and the PCB in another.
We have always tried to keep the licensing scheme simple, with no hardware locks or other security measures for the Easy-PC application. All we ask is that people stick to the rules, as that in turn allows us to keep the application administration simple and also helps to keep the prices low.
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tmd63
United Kingdom
18 Posts |
Posted - 19 Oct 2016 : 10:23:23
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Thank you David,
Being Autistic, I need to get things straight in my head and running 2 concurrent processes on a single PC sounded too close to running 2 concurrent process on separate PC's without clarification.
I understood the loading a single user licence onto a server for multiple users broke the licensing agreement so I just wanted to be clear on the whole concurrent processes on PC's for a single user.
I am glad you clarified this. |
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AndyB
United Kingdom
208 Posts |
Posted - 21 Oct 2016 : 12:44:23
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Hi David, That sound fine to me.
Thanks |
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How many PC's