If you've payed to upgrade to 5, you've still only got a license to run
1 XSI, no matter which version that is.
If you bought a brand new copy of 5, then clearly you could still run
one 4.2 and also your new version 5 at the same time.
Personally, I'm not sure where the confusion is?
Tim Leydecker wrote:
(this isn´t my thread, it´s Chris´)
Thanks for the details about the consequences of the licensing scheme,
I had assumed SPM and FlexLM to work identical, e.g. I could run
two 4.5 Maya licenses here using one 4.5 and 6.0 if my licenses wouldn´t
be nodelocked anyway but floating :-)
Good to know this wouldn´t work with XSI, e.g.you had upgraded
a licensefile and explicitely get one interactive license granted in
that.
Counting per machine but made to block different builds to run in a
simultaneous session from one interactive license.
This isn´t ideal as it would obviously be desireable to have both builds
open when transfering things from old>new for fixing inconveniences
introduced through new functionality or changed featuresets.
tim
P.S: I´d find it building customer relationship to allow *build up* of
licenses but I can understand it would be commercially stressing...
----- Original Message ----- From: "kim aldis" <kim(at)cg-soup.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:07 PM
Subject: RE: 1 licence for two different versions
The rules are that one user/machine combination only takes one token, no
matter how many instances of xsi you use. However, it does seem that the
rule doesn't cross version boundaries and running 5.1 alongside 4.2
won't
work if you have a single token. With that caveat, old versions of
xsi will
run from newer tokens, so 4.2 will run from a 5.1 token provided 5.1
isn't
running. Which is annoying.
Except on linux where a second xsi will crash the prior version.
That's a
bug, though.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sandy E. Sutherland
Sent: 10-May-2006 10:49
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: 1 licence for two different versions
Don't know about this - If you BOUGHT 4.2 and then BOUGHT
5.01 - then you can get Softimage to generate you a key with
both in - but if you bought 4.2 and UPGRADED it to 5.01 -
then you can run only 1 seat at a time - unless of course
this is on 1 machine - where you should be able to run 2 or
more XSI at the same time - THIS IS ON THE SAME MACHINE!!!!
I am presuming this, as I do not run 2 XSIs at the same time
- do not work that way!!
S.
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