License agreement

Chris,

I don't know the exact wording, but it's been allowed since the beginning. Don't know how they do it outside the US though, you need a dongle.

Regards

Mark

from the horse's mouth; see particularly the part about home use towards the bottom

Grant of License. SolidWorks grants to you a nonexclusive nontransferable license to use the Software and the printed and/or electronic user documentation (the "Documentation") accompanying the Software in accordance with this Agreement. If you have paid the license fee for a single user license, this Agreement permits you to use one copy of the Software on any single computer, provided that the Software is in use on only one computer at any time. If you have paid the license fees for multiple licenses of the Software, then at any time you may have as many copies of the Software in use as you have licenses. The Software is "in use" on a computer when it is loaded into the temporary memory (i.e. RAM). If the potential number of users of the Software exceeds the number of licenses you have purchased, then you must have a reasonable mechanism or process in place to assure that the number of computers on which the Software is running concurrently does not exceed the number of licenses purchased. Except for COSMOS products, license suites consisting of bundles of separate modules (such as SolidWorks Office) cannot float separately from each other (for example, where there is one SolidWorks Office license, Toolbox cannot be floated to one computer while PhotoWorks is floated to a different computer). At the time of registration (see Article 9 below) you must inform us of the maximum number of potential users of the licenses you purchase. We recommend you also inform us of the names of all potential users so that we can notify them of upcoming updates and other pertinent information. If the Software is permanently installed on the hard disk or other storage device of a computer (other than a network server) and one person uses that computer more than

80% of the time it is in use, then that person may also use the Software on a portable or home computer [not applicable to COSMOS products]. You will keep accurate and up-to-date records of the numbers and locations of all copies of the Software, will supervise and control the use of the Software in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and will provide copies of such records to SolidWorks upon reasonable request.

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