Licensing

[Fairlight]

You must buy enough seats to cover every active "user".  On a SCO text
console (but not Linux text consoles), all the main consoles count as one
seat.  I -believe- FacetWin had some sort of arrangement that made Facet
akin to the SCO console that way...but on SCO, not Linux, if memory serves.

Other than that, every time you invoke clerk, cabe, report, ddefine, etc.,
you're eating a license.  I don't think runmenu eats any, but could be
wrong.

About the only upside to 5.7.x is that a SYSTEM to a clerk or report no
longer takes another user seat from the license pool.  Something which
should have been done back in 4.5, IMNSHO.  Not for lack of begging,
bitching, moaning, and general complaining from the community for years.
Now they've "fixed" it, and "nobody" (few) want to buy the new product with
its attendant license manager.

But except in very specific and rare instances, yes, every open instance is
a "user".

mark->

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:38:05PM -0400, Mike Fedkiw thus spoke:
> I know this has probably been gone over multiple times by now, I think I've actually seen it being talked about but it just seemed confusing to me. 
> 
> 
> I'm still so confused as to what id actually have to buy to be able to use the most current version of filepro. 
> 
> I am pretty much the only one that uses the development but I'll at times have 3-4 Windows of it open while working on something. My employees also usually have multiple Windows open on each terminal. Now if I have to buy a license for every open window, even if it's on the same machine, that's just ridiculous. 
> 
> Let's see, at any given time there could possibly be 15+ filepro's running although I've only got 6 computers not counting the server which is still on server 2003. 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, Mike 
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