Brian Cameron wrote: > 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.
Regardless of the licensing issue I REALLY REALLY don't want to need to keep going back to the Fluendo server just because my current system as switch from x86 to SPARC or vice versa - in fact there maybe situations where I can't do that because I don't have the network connectivity to Fluendo at that tiem. The real solution here is to switch the install location to .gnome/plugins/`uname -p`. We have the same problem with Firefox but it at least has a workaround by allowing the user to set the $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH variable. -- Darren J Moffat
