OK to install on second machine?

[Andrew Cunningham]

All:

A professor at my university wants to install Vectorworks on his personal laptop so that he can work at home. Can he install using the existing license that is on his work desktop machine, and just plug in the dongle on the laptop?

Thanks,

--Andy

[Guest jkelly]

Hi Andy,

Yes, that is fine. From the license agreement for Series B (Dongle protection):

"If this copy of Vectorworks is issued with a serial number that begins with the letter "B" and includes a hardware key (dongle), you may install the software on multiple computers, but only one copy may be in use at a time, and the computer on which the software is being used must have the Nemetschek hardware key connected."

[Bryan G.]

Andrew,

I see you already got an answer. And yes you can. However I would like to add is it possible to override the second copy? I don't ask this question to be a thief, more because I am lazy. Here is why I ask. I am a one man show and I leave my workhorse(Mac Pro) running all the time, sometimes a change of scenery is nice and I will take my laptop up to work (ie. letters to clients, surf the web, solitaire) when I sometimes need to reference a VW file or I just get in the mood to work in VW. I cant because I get a warning that 2 VW's are running.

Would be nice if they could both be used in a situation like that.

If not I supposed I could get off my a-- and turn off the other.