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Offline Blue_AlienTopic starter

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Altium wants to convert my standalone license to on-demand
« on: November 20, 2019, 07:27:43 pm »
Altium included a "free" line item in my recent renewal quote to convert my standalone license to on-demand. I am a solo contractor and don't need to share my license. The closest thing I do is share my license between my desktop and laptop. I just need to make sure only one is running at a time or it complains every few minutes.

What I worry about is when I occasionally work without internet if I'd be able to use the license if I haven't set it to roam beforehand.

What does everyone think? I'm leaning towards staying with the standalone license. I guess with the on-demand license, I could lend it out to people if needed.
 

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Re: Altium wants to convert my standalone license to on-demand
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2019, 10:03:56 pm »
I would stick with standalone myself. If you want to avoid the complaining popup you can block altium in your firewall, but you might lose other online features.

https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/altium-designer-on-demand-licensing?version=18.1

I would assume its against the EULA to lend out your license?
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Re: Altium wants to convert my standalone license to on-demand
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2019, 03:57:56 am »
Thanks for the advice. That's how I'm leaning.

I'm sure lending out my standalone license is against the EULA. But if I did switch to an on-demand license, I would expect to be able to lend it out to subcontractors if needed.
 

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Re: Altium wants to convert my standalone license to on-demand
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2019, 04:12:30 pm »
Read the fine print.

When I was looking at licensing, on-demand was much more expensive than a local network license (maybe it's only "free" during the first year?). It'll require Internet access to work. Finally, they told me that the network license we got is supposed to be used only at a single "site", so while ethical, sharing a license to a remote person may be against the terms of service...

I don't see any good reasons for your to go to an on-demand license...
 

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Re: Altium wants to convert my standalone license to on-demand
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2019, 03:45:40 pm »
The on-demand licenses also allow you to remotely release the license from another PC.  So for example if you forget to close AD when you leave the office you won't be SOL when you try to fire it up on your laptop later on.  As long as you can get an internet connection for a second you can release the license from your desktop and then activate it on your laptop.
 

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Re: Altium wants to convert my standalone license to on-demand
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2019, 09:42:46 pm »
The on-demand licenses also allow you to remotely release the license from another PC.  So for example if you forget to close AD when you leave the office you won't be SOL when you try to fire it up on your laptop later on.  As long as you can get an internet connection for a second you can release the license from your desktop and then activate it on your laptop.

As noted above, going offline or blocking it in the firewall and you should be ok, last time I checked.
That or can set office PC to sleep after 30min.
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