Hi, I am thinking of using one of our work licences of Solidworks at home and I was wondering what, if any limitations are placed on the use of the software at home. For instance, can you use the home licence to do work for a third party or is this taboo?
Solidworks licence
Jan 25, 2007
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As far as I know there are only two limitations from SW. Of course I am not giving legal advice, just stating some entertaining observations.
- You cannot run the home license at work, i.e., you cannot put it on a laptop that you use both at work where the original seat is run and home such that both the home seat and original seat could be run simultaneously. A corollary of this is that you cannot put it on a laptop and take it with you on a trip if the seat on which the home license is based is being used at work.
- You cannot continue to use it if your employment ceases from which the home license was derived.
And common sense would dictate that you would clear such a use with your firm. After all certain information regarding the licensed software will be embedded in the SW files. Should a design you did at home fail and some sharp lawyer traced it back to your firm in an effort to pin the blame you might find yourself in a very bad situation.
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