Re: How does RDP Activation/Licensing work?

I believe the licensing works to one license, one machine. So if you try to install it on your home PC, that would be another license. If you have the ability to access your work PC from a remote location, you can access the copy on your work PC and use it from home to avoid tying up two licenses. As to how the licensing actually works, I am not sure of how that works behind the scenes. We have I believe a dozen licenses here and have a couple of individuals who haven't installed it yet so I can't tell you what happens when you hit that wall.

-- Ken

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Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:47 PM
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Subject: [WDSCI-L] How does RDP Activation/Licensing work?

I've finally got the activation jar file for our copies of RDP 8. I put
it out on the network with the other RDP install & update files. I
applied it to my expired trial version and and RDP 8 works again. Yea!

But how does this licensing work? Lets say I have four seats. I've
used up one. How does it know there are three left for the other
developers? I mean, I could have walked around with a CD to each
machine. It it calling home to IBM?

And when they license their copies, will any of us be able to install
and run RDP on our home machines? Because I really would like to use it
over the VPN.

Not trying to beat the system. Just asking...

Sam