Hey Charlie

Is it still true with 2021 that with a license key you can have two installs, one for production and one for development?  I remember that was true for older versions.

Thanks

This is covered in the EULA. My read is that for each Enterprise license, yes, once per each license bought. For Standard, it’s once for each TWO licenses bought.

Of course, the free Developer edition remains free, and differences are again covered in the EULA (primarily, the free edition limits concurrent requests to at most 2 ip addresses).

So, just to be sure I am reading it right, if I have a standard license I can only use it once which would be on my production server.  I would need a separate license for my dev serve.  If I had an enterprise license then I could use that same key on my production server and my dev server.

With moving to CommandBox and developing directly on my machine more, the two IP address restriction isn’t as big of a deal as it used to be on the dev server but I still have had instances of more than two people evaluating a dev site before promoting it so was hoping that two installs per license was still in effect.

Thanks, the license stuff gets confusing and I didn’t even know that option was there in older version till I read one of your older blog posts.

Well, again let’s be clear that we are NOT talking about the Developer edition. That remains free. You are asking about putting a CF license on what you deem to be a “dev server”. And yes, if you have a SINGLE Standard license, then you can use it only once (like on your prod server).

And as for your having “people evaluating a dev site before promoting it”, note that that is covered ALSO in the EULA, with respect to whether folks only INSIDE your network may legally access a CF server running the Dev edition or as a Dev server.

Again, folks should read/trust the EULA over what I/we may say. But that’s how I read it.

Yep, this is all internal when we are just building and evaluating.  Thanks for the clarification and entertaining what are probably pretty redundant questions by now.  I went back through your presentation and reread the multiple slides on licensing again between our posts.

Thanks for all you do.

Thanks for the kind regards. This stuff does confuse people, and I enjoy helping clarify things. (That said, this topic got pretty far afield from the original post here. In the future, I’d propose to anyone wanting to expand on this or branch off into other licensing matters should really create a new “discussion”.)