CVF license transfer

[Intel_C_Intel]

Hello,

Our company has CVF 6.6 license for 25 seats. Eighth digit of serial number is 4, so this is "multiple" single-PC license. Question is easy: All 25 copies of CVF are installed. Can we uninstall a copy from one computer and install it on another?

Thanks and regards.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If you wanted an official answer to this question, you'd have to ask HP. But my (unofficial) recollection is that, yes, you may do that. The license is not tied to a specific system - rather you are allowed to install it on one work system and one additional home or portable system as long as one person is the primary user of both.

[nikita_tropin1]

>If you wanted an official answer to this question, you'd have to ask HP.

But HP site says that "Hewlett-Packard no longer sells or supportsCompaq Visual Fortran". And I didn't find any e-mail adress or any forum on their site, where I can ask questions.

>The license is not tied to a specific system - rather you are allowed to install it on one work system and one additional home or portable system as long as one person is the primary user of both.

This is possible only for CVF Standart Edition? In Pro Edition license of compiler allows to do that, but license of IMSL don't. Am I right?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Sorry, I don't remember that detail. Try sending an e-mail to Richard.Morency at hp.com. Last I knew, he was the business manager for CVF and he should be able to answer licensing questions.

[anthonyrichards]

Surely, if they no longer sell or support CVF, you are free to do what you want with your licensed copies, as it sounds like HP have washed their hands of CVF?

[nikita_tropin1]

What do you mean by "do what you want"? Can I install 100 copies of CVF, if I have only 25 licenses? If there is no Compaq, there is no license agreement?

As said here (http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,7088,00.html), HP no longer sells or supportsCompaq Visual Fortran.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

That new licenses of CVF are no longer being offered by HP, or that HP is no longer providing technical support of CVF, does not mean that the license agreement for CVF no longer applies. It does not become freeware. You are still bound by the terms of the license if you want to use the product.

HP is the "successor and assign" of Compaq (and DEC) and owns the rights to CVF. But even if it didn't exist, that would not mean that the license no longer applies.