For swan users, their home directory are mounted from a nfs server. but for my understanding, gstreamer plugins will be copy to $HOME/.gstreamer/plugins/
so the codec plugins for x86 could not be used when user switch to another SPARC SunRay Server. users may download plugins for sparc again, and overwrite his gstreamer plugin directory. and of course, he will not be able to use it when switch back to X86 Sunray Server. that's a problem. >> 2. How does this project deal with a user who switches >> between SPARC and x86? How does this project deal >> with a user who switches their Sun Ray server via >> utswitch? What if the server was SPARC and is now x86? >> Are the implications of this that the user would have >> to purchase a new plugin? Would the difference in >> system architecture cause the application to fail? >> Would the difference in system architecture cause the >> mechanism to overwrite the previous version? >> > > When you use the codeina application to login to the Fluendo server, you > register your username and are given a password. Users can then freely > re-download plugins that have been previously purchased. This is useful if > the user accidently deletes the plugin or if the plugin has been updated (in > which case the user should receive an email and codeina should automatically > prompt the user to upgrade). > > However, each plugin license is only valid for one computer, so the user is > expected to not abuse the license they agreed to when purchasing the plugin. > In other words, users agree to not install the plugin on multiple machines. > When a user replaces one machine with another, it is okay to migrate the > license from one machine to another, as long as the same plugin license is > not used on both. > > I will need to check with Fluendo if purchasing an x86 plugin allows you to > migrate to a Sparc plugin (or a plugin for a different distro for that > matter) in the future, or if users need to buy a new set of plugins when > switching from x86 to Sparc or vice versa. I will respond when I get an > answer. > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
