LabVIEW Licensing question

[s]

I have purchased one copy of LabVIEW Full Dev. System 6.0. It has since
been upgraded to 6.1 and 7.0. My questions are about licenses:

1. Am I allowed to install LabVIEW 7.0 on multiple machines, if I'm the
only developer who will use LabVIEW at anytime?

2. Can I legally install LabVIEW 6.0 on one machine, 6.1 on another and
7.0 on a third for use by different developers?



Thanks,
Stephen

[Joe_H]

I'm pretty sure that you cannot install on multiple machines at your company at any one time. Even though you have purchased the upgrades for 6.1 and 7.0 you still fall under the same agreement that was initially purchased for 6.0. However if these are not upgrades then you can. Also under the license it states that you may load the software on your PC at home. If you have any more questions I would suggest contacting NI sales and not posting to this forum.

Joe

[Jyoti F]

Hello Stephen,

According to the Software Licensing Agreement you can have only one active copy of your software installed at a time. Also, in this agreement, the term "software" includes all upgrades provided by NI. So, Joe is correct with his statement about your upgrades falling under the same agreement that was initially purchased for 6.0 and you are legally allowed to have one of these copies active at a time.

For more information about licensing please visit www.ni.com/license.

Regards,
Jyoti F
National Instruments

[Methis Elddir]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:40:45 -0500, s wrote:

> I have purchased one copy of LabVIEW Full Dev. System 6.0. It has since
> been upgraded to 6.1 and 7.0. My questions are about licenses:
>
> 1. Am I allowed to install LabVIEW 7.0 on multiple machines, if I'm the
> only developer who will use LabVIEW at anytime?
>
> 2. Can I legally install LabVIEW 6.0 on one machine, 6.1 on another and
> 7.0 on a third for use by different developers?

Hello Stephen,

That's a big NO to everything you asked. There is another option. I see
from your header that you're a Linux user. Is it possible that you're
using LV for Linux too?

If yes, then you should consider thin clients. For more info go to
ltsp.org. Then dig through the NI software license agreement (NISLA). Yo
u
should find it interesting.

Contact me directly if you have questions (just look at my header and
remove the "killspam").