I believe in the EU second-hand trading of software licenses are legal. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240214493/Second-hand-software-legal-or-illegal
Of course, finding somebody prepared to sell is possibly problematic. On 15 September 2015 at 22:49, Tenshi . <[email protected]> wrote: > I was saving for a Softimage license only, i thought i could get one from > a reseller but now it's clear that we need to spend 4k for a)software i > don't want. b)software that is already dead. This is real? > I want my machine to have at least one softimage license, not student or > something like that. > > Really i don't see what is the trouble selling a dead software, what is > the cost to that if they're saying those licenses are perpetual, so they > don't need any servers to keep checking online? .. I find this whole > situation absurd, really. > If we have money, we can't buy;, and if they gave us an option the only > one is spending too much for something i will not use. > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Patrick Neese <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> As a hobbyist with a single license...I fear the day I create something >> worth while that I have to figure out how to render with more than one >> machine...since I only have one Mental Ray license for softimage. I'm >> trying to learn Maya... It is unfortunate I can't have a softimage/mental >> ray license (or 20) transferred to me from someone who just isn't using >> the software anymore...or...is that possible? It appears the LSA could >> allow for a transfer via written approval by Autodesk (2.1.1 of the 2014 >> LSA) :) It's worth a shot :) >> > >
