Your subscription is valid for a period of one year from the time of original purchase. Renewals extend the original period by one year, regardless when they are purchased.
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What if I want to add more systems to my current subscription (so that they all expire at the same time)?
Please contact us. We will be happy to align your expiration dates accordingly, by either extending your current subscription or shortening the new one, and will invoice you for the difference,
License? I thought I owned the software!
You have purchased either a license to a particular application (program; driver; software title) or a subscription, which entitles you to download and access updates to one or more programs. Each application should be accompanied by its own license to use it under varying conditions. For example:
Ownership. You have no ownership rights in the Software. Rather, you have a license to use the Software as long as this License Agreement remains in full force and effect. Ownership of the Software, Documentation and all intellectual property rights therein shall remain at all times with Licensor. Any other use of the Software by any person, business, corporation, government organization, or any other entity is strictly forbidden and
is a violation of this License Agreement.
Thus, you have purchased the right to use the software, but you do not own it, and as such, may only legally use it in the manner specified in the license.
How do you define one system or one licensing unit?
Arca Noae considers one physical computer (workstation, server, tablet, or handheld) or active virtual machine a single system or licensing unit. Thus, you may create a dozen virtual machines, but if you only use one at a time, then like a book, only one copy is in use at any given time.
Physical machines are a little easier to define. We don’t care how many physical processors or how many processing cores are in the machine. A computer of any type, with a single systemboard, powered by a single connected power button, counts as a single system or licensing unit.
A single licensing unit may not be shared between a single physical workstation and any virtual machines, active or not. Thus, if you have one physical computer running an OS/2-based operating system and another computer serving as a host to even one virtual machine running an OS/2-based operating system, we consider you to have two systems.