License Usage question
by Sam Contapay · in General Game Discussion · 07/22/2003 (7:00 pm) · 4 replies
**DAMN** Originally posted in the other forum but then saw this customer support forum moved it, and deleted my post but then tried to delete the thread and got a double post **DAMN**
I am all for following license, hence my reason for not having 3DS Max. I wanted to ask the RE people if it is OK for me to install the SDK on my laptop as well as my desktop? I am the only person that uses either computer so its just me? I travel a lot in my RL job and would just like to have the SDK wherever I go :)
I am all for following license, hence my reason for not having 3DS Max. I wanted to ask the RE people if it is OK for me to install the SDK on my laptop as well as my desktop? I am the only person that uses either computer so its just me? I travel a lot in my RL job and would just like to have the SDK wherever I go :)
#2
Btw, MonsterStudio guys, when are you going to have info on your web page about RE?
07/22/2003 (8:04 pm)
Thanks George, I wish that licensing scheme was true for MS Windows. Under the Microsoft license you need to have purchased a license for each computer you install it on, even if it is your own. Thanks for the heads up I, because of Microsoft, just wanted to make sure! I hope one of the company guys can ring in on this as it may be important to other developers as well.Btw, MonsterStudio guys, when are you going to have info on your web page about RE?
#3
No problem with installing it on multiple computers. I think the notion/philosophy/definition of fair use is going through some growing pains right now. Microsoft thinks it's fair use on a single computer, Monster Studios thinks it's fair use whereever you are... so long as you don't distribute it.
As far as updating the website, I'm working on that daily. It's slowly moving up the priority ladder ;)
Chris Cole
Master Monster
Monster Studios, LLC
07/23/2003 (12:26 pm)
Sam,No problem with installing it on multiple computers. I think the notion/philosophy/definition of fair use is going through some growing pains right now. Microsoft thinks it's fair use on a single computer, Monster Studios thinks it's fair use whereever you are... so long as you don't distribute it.
As far as updating the website, I'm working on that daily. It's slowly moving up the priority ladder ;)
Chris Cole
Master Monster
Monster Studios, LLC
Torque Owner George McBay
Generally speaking software licensing is such that you can install a copy on as many computers as you like, so long as only one copy is ever being used at one single time. The EULA for Reaction Engine makes no specific claims as to only allowing you to install it on one system at a time, so legally you're in the clear even if GarageGames/Monster Studios did have a problem with it -- which I'm sure they don't anyway.