Query about licenses and platforms

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I am considering moving up from Edit and buying the IDE individual licence and was hoping someone could clarify something for me. I believe the licence permits use on more than one computer (belonging to me) but does this also extend to more than one platform? I have both Mac and Windows development machines, and I would hope to be able to use it on both. Is this supported and permitted? A definitive answer before the end of the Black Friday sale would be great :slight_smile: Thanks.

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Of course you can. You can download license activator/installer from http://account.activestate.com for any platform (Windows, OSX and Linux).
AFAIK you can use your license on any computer you want.

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Awesome, thanks for the quick response. Time to get the credit card out :slight_smile:

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Correct - you can use the one license on multiple platforms and multiple machines (provided it’s you who are using it).

I couldn’t find the license details on the komodoide website (something for us to add), but it is on the ActiveState website here:
http://www.activestate.com/support/faqs#faq-1493

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Thanks, meant to reply sooner, but my broadband was messed up yesterday. I did buy the Personal licence on Sunday, and I do have it running on both my dev machines. It has some nice extra features compared to Edit, so very happy overall.

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I was wondering the same thing cause I use a Mac at home, and a PC at work.

Sometimes I want to do some Komodo work at the office whenever there is down time. I installed Komodo IDE trial on the PC at the office, and from home I emailed the Mac .lic to my self.

At the office I downloaded the .lic from email and pasted it into the following Path on the PC:

C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\ActiveState

Although restarting my machine wasn’t required; I still did so just in case. I opened Komodo IDE thereafter and it worked like a champ! :slight_smile:

Hope this is helpful.

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In another case you just can download license activator from account.activestate.com and get same result.

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True, but since I’m at the office… They have some kind of security app that filters out .exe’s and other installers. You wouldn’t believe the trouble I went through to install Komodo IDE on my machine ( plus the two python shells ). I didn’t want to go through the same kind of process for the License Activator if I could simply utilize something as simple as a file copy.

At home… Everything works great. At work; I have to make special arrangements.

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But why do not ask security manager of your office to allow to execute Komodo license activator? :smile:
And license installer do not install some type of software. It just copy “ActiveState.lic” automatically to your ActiveSate folder. Anyway nice to know you solve your “problem”.

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Sometimes, the corporate security people don’t seem to really know what they are doing, so they don’t allow anything out of the ordinary just to be safe. I was ok though. I just downloaded the installers for Mac and PC and ran them.

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Great! This answered another question I had.

I usually work in windows because my previous development platform was dreamweaver (old MX version) and I’m seriously considering moving away from anything windows. I use MAC and Linux more and more so I’m not stuck with one choice.