Licensing Question

[adamsutcliffe]

Hi,

The company I work for is looking to purchase Visual Fortran Academic Professional 11.1, however we are having trouble getting an answer to the following question; can you run the above version of Fortran on a Virtual Machine without being in breach of the license agreement? We are looking to purchase a 2 floating license pack. Our IT department wants this clarified before we purchase, and this needs to be today. Any replies ASAP would be much appreciated!

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Our license has no restrictions relating to virtual machines.

[DavidWhite]

Steve,

We are currently permitted to install a single user license on any number of machines, as long as we are only using one machine at a time. Does the same then translate to virtual machines - that I can use the license on a single virtual machine, or does your comment that there is no restriction mean that I could use a single license on multiple virtual machines at thesame time?

David

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The single-user license is for your own use. As long as you, David White, are the only person using the compiler under that license, we don't care what you use to run the compiler. It could be an Etch-A-Sketch (with SSE2 instructions at least, please), for all we care. However, the single-user license requires that "only one copy of the Materials is in use at any one time". I'll have to ask our legal eagles, but I'm reasonably confident that a virtual machine counts as "a computer" for the terms of the license. Therefore, no, you could not use a single license on multiple virtual machines at the same time.

Adam asked specifically about floating licenses, which have somewhat different rules, but again, a virtual machine is a computer as far as we are concerned.

You can read the license terms here.