If I have a computer at work & a computer at home... do I purchase two licenses or one?
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If I have a computer at work & a computer at home... do I purchase two licenses or one?
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There's a blurb about this you can view from store.omnigroup.com; click the 'How our electronic licenses work.' link in the "Other Information" box at the bottom of the right sidebar.
But, the text relevant to your question is: Quote:
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Member
2007-12-14, 12:48 PM
An additional clarification had been requested on this before, with no resolution: does "not at the same time" apply to the "can install" portion, or just the "can use" portion?
in other words, can I have it installed on two machines, but only use one of them at a time, or can I not have it installed on two machines period?
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You need a license for every person using the software or for every computer using the software (whichever is less). So you can install a single license on two (or more) computers as long as you're the only person using those licenses and you're only using it on one computer at a time.
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Member
2007-12-16, 05:04 AM
Considering all the terrible licensing and DRM implementations out there today, thank you for a system that seems to rely on common sense :)
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When adding a license, I'm prompted for the license type (computer or personal). The license I purchased did not make this distinction. Is there a functional difference between these two license types?
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If you install it as a personal license, it gets stored in your user account, so other user accounts won't see and try to use it. If you install it as a computer license, it gets stored in a shared location, so all user accounts on the computer can find that license and attempt to use it. Personal licenses are used in preference to Computer licenses, so that person A with a personal license for OmniFocus will use that one, instead of claiming the shared license and thus potentially preventing use by someone who doesn't have a personal license but who could have otherwise used the shared license. This mostly comes in to play with Network licenses, such as at a company with many client computers - if your network is configured in a specific way, you can put the license in a particular place on the network such that client computers will find that network license, rather than forcing you to control licenses installed on a bunch of separate client computers. -andrew
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OK makes sense, but I don't think the UI for license type is very intuitive. I suggest providing some additional information to clarify this either with the purchased license or in the online help for the license interface.
Thanks for your response!
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Member
2009-10-16, 05:00 AM
I could be wrong, so just kindly clarify.
You said that I can only have omnifocus running once on two computers Lets say I want to sync my work computer with the omnifocus on my personal computer, via network. I always get the error msg that the other omnifocus needs to be open before I can sync it but if you said that I can only have omnifocus running once on two computers... then that is impossible right?
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