PD4ML PRO site license

#36168

Hello,
We are evaluating this library and we had a few question about the site license:
Note: we are looking into PD4ML PRO developer site license.
1: It says that the license includes email support and software updates for a year. Does it mean that if we do not renew annually then we will not get the updates but can still keep using the product in it’s un-updated form?
2: Is there any limit to the number of developers that can use a site license for development purposes of a single site?
3: What is the benefit of getting the source code?
Thanks in advance.

#36169

Hi! Here are the answers:

1: It says that the license includes email support and software updates for a year. Does it mean that if we do not renew annually then we will not get the updates but can still keep using the product in it’s un-updated form?

Right. The license itself is perpetual, only the maintenance period expires.

2: Is there any limit to the number of developers that can use a site license for development purposes of a single site?

It is important not to mix “development site” (small company, company division or affiliate, distinguished by a postal address) and e.g. “web site” (place, where your deployed application runs).

The license does not limit you in a number of your PD4ML-enabled application deployments, it does not limit you in a number of developers, work from the same development site. But it is not corporate-wide. If the development is done by a number of teams work in different locations – every such company division or affiliate would need its own Site License.

In other words, the license assumes only one source of support requests.

We offer so-called Enterprise licenses, which have no such limitations.

3: What is the benefit of getting the source code?

The main purpose is security: we offer the source code licenses as a more attractive alternative to source code escrow practice.

In principle you can even build PD4ML software from the SRC, but the major benefit is that you can debug, (in theory) pre-analyze failure reasons and provide us with more detailed issue reports

#36170

Thank you so much for clarifying. One more question is:
Do we have access to the source code through the evaluation license version?

#36171

> Do we have access to the source code through the evaluation license version?
Unfortunately no

#36172

Thanks I appreciate your quick responses.

#36179

Another question we have is that with a site license could a single division in our company deploy PD4ML on different applications? Or in that case we require an Enterprise license?

#36180

The DevSite license does not limit you in a number of deployments and in the number of applications in which PD4ML will be used. If all PD4ML-enabled software is developed by a single company division, one DevSite license is sufficient

#36192

Thank you very much for your reply.

#36198

I had another question regarding the pd4ml.lic file. We need to keep the license file in WEB-INF/classes directory.
Will the lic file need to stay even when the license expires after a year?

#36199

You can store the .lic file to the work dir of your app, to the classpath root (including root folders of .JAR files) or you can simply pass the activation code from the .lic file to PD4ML constructor.

A valid .lic file or its activation code, even its associated maintenance period has expired, needs to be passed to PD4ML, otherwise PD4ML switches to demo/evaluation mode.

#36200

Ok got it thanks.

#37246

I appreciate your quick responses.

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