Licencing issues and seeking assistance

[Rob_J_]

Below is an actual example of an enquiry about licencing, and the response given. The names have been hidden to protect the ... umm ... innocent?

To: feedback@ispfulfillment.com

Hi,

Back in early 2016 I downloaded a copy of Parallel Studio 2016 Update
2 and was granted licence 3ZCK-SGMWRMWZ under the open source
contributor rules. At the time my hardware vendor sold me a system
that was faulty so it was never installed. In January 2017 I received
notification of an upgrade which was also downloaded. The upgrade fell
within the 12 month window for the above licence so a new licence was
not applied for. Parallel Studio 2017 Update 2. Neither of these
versions are on the unsupported list, but in any case I don't require
support after 40 years as a computer engineer.

I have recently acquired a Ninja Development Platform (Supermicro) and
again applied for an open source contributor licence, which was
granted and the latest version of Parallel Studio was installed.
Parallel Studio 2018 Update 2 Professional lic. # NHKS-THC8GNXZ

However I also have some X100 cards which I'd like to work with in
Ubuntu on another system. Tonight I attempted to install Parallel
Studio 2017 Update 2 on the Ubuntu machine, to be told that the
licence has expired. I tried the newer licence and it tells me that it
is not valid for this version of Parallel Studio. Effectively there's
no way I can use either of the earlier downloads.

I don't believe the later version of Parallel Studio supports Ubuntu
16.04 and I'm also unsure if it even supports X100 cards any more. I
would prefer to use the earlier tools with the X100 cards but there
doesn't seem to be a way to do that.

Any ideas?

Reply:

Rob,

Here is a link to all the free Open Source licenses. https://software.intel.com/en-us/qualify-for-free-software/opensourcecontributor

Here is a link to all our free Intel Tools for Non-Commercial https://software.intel.com/en-us/qualify-for-free-software


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