New Licensing Scheme

AVS/Express 7.0 introduces a new unified licensing scheme for all platforms.
Previous restrictions on sharing floating licenses across platforms or sharing
site licenses across platfroms have been removed. The new licenses have more features than the previous generation licenses and have the advantage that all the information is in plain-text.

The license file is an ordinary text file that contains lines that look like the following (all on one line).

AVS LICVER=1 PRODUCT=EXPRESS DATE=30-dec-2005 HOSTID=192.253.36.22 CUSTID=AVSInc PASSWD=4c8e057c282cab61d7d4324d9b4105c9

A single file can contain multiple licenses. Blank lines and comment lines starting with '#' are skipped. The above example corresponds to a unlimited-use license for a single host, the kind of license typically called node locked. Unlimited-use licenses can be read directly out of a license file by AVS/Express.

The following example shows a use-limited license that allows 5 concurrent copies of AVS/Express to be active at any one time. The presense of the keyword "LIMIT" distinguishes the two types of licenses. This particular example shows a hostid that allows any machine on the local network to run AVS/Express. This corresponds to what is commonly called a floating license (all on one line).

AVS LICVER=1 PRODUCT=EXPRESS LIMIT=5 DATE=30-dec-2005 HOSTID=192.253.36.00/24 CUSTID=AVSInc PASSWD=4c8e057c282cab61d7d4324d9b4105c9

Use-limited licenses must be under the control of a license server. They cannot be read directly by AVS/Express.

For more details read the section on Licensing AVS/Express or Detailed Licensing Information