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- From: ask@sei.cmu.edu (Alan Koch)
- Subject: Re: Licensing FM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.190856.18565@sei.cmu.edu>
- Keywords: Licensing
- Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
- Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
- References: <1992Nov17.161422.28186@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:08:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.161422.28186@rzu-news.unizh.ch>, suter@rsl.geogr.unizh.ch (Martin Suter) writes:
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- |> > ... As I understand it, you only need a license to start
- |> > using FrameMaker (if that), to save documents, and to print documents.
- |> > With a little discipline, several simultaneous users can get by with
- |> > one license. I think our site has five licenses for thirty users ...
- |>
- |> Who has more information about this subject? Is the above statement true?
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- Almost. You don't need a license to start FrameMaker, nor do you need one to
- open or print a document. You only need a license to edit or save documents.
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- The way the license server works, you buy a certain number of licenses, then
- in the license file, you can list those who are allowed to use them or those
- who are NOT allowed to use them. You can also specify that certain licenses
- are reserved for certain people. Or, you can list no one. That way, anyone
- who can get to the license server can use FrameMaker.
-
- When anyone tries to do something that requires a license, FrameMaker requests
- a license, and the server grants the request if there is one available and
- that user is allowed to get one. After a certain period of inactivity, the
- license is given up and others can check it out. Or the socially sensitive
- user will give back his license when he is done using it.
-
- So, the number of licenses should reflect the maximum number of people who can
- edit FrameMaker documents at a time. Best case would be a shop where one
- person writes and maintains the online documentation and 200 people read it.
- In that case, they only need one license, because only one person will ever
- edit or save a document. If they replace their full-time writer with two
- part-timers (one working AM's and the other PM's), then they STILL only need
- one license.
-
- Also, the license server can run on a difference machine from the users. As
- long as the network is guaranteed to connect the machines, it works fine.
-
- It's a very good flexible system, and it works well (as long as y0ou buy
- enough licenses.)
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- ask@sei.cmu.edu
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- Alan S. Koch
- Software Engineering Institute
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213
-