Hi Steve,
As Andrew has indicated, if you are actually referring to JAWS here, you
do require to be certain that you actually have a five user licence. A
single-user licence for JAWS can in fact be installed on up to five
machines, but is still intended for a single user. Your supplier should
be able to advise.
Assuming it is an actual five user licence, you do possibly have a
choice of installing it on five individual machines, or on a Server. If
you chose the latter, then given that the PC's users would be accessing
have soundcards, etc., they could poetntially have a wider choice of
what systems they use round the campus. With a server/network
installation, certain parameters are set by the administrator which
prevents more that five users accessing the software at any one time.
George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Joyce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 22 January 2003 14:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Computer software licences
>
>
> Could someone clarify the position regarding licences and no.
> of machines a piece of software can be installed on. I seem
> to be getting conflicting stories from different sources.
>
> e.g. The college has a 5 user licence for a piece of
> specialist software ,but only 2 students need/would want to
> make use of it. Does this mean it can only be installed on 5
> PCs and then reinstalled to the machines the particular
> students who need it are using, or c an it be installed on as
> many machines as needed (more than 5) as long as only a
> maximum of 5 individual students can access it. The software
> is a screen reader and therefore only going to be used by 2 students.
>
> Sorry for the lengthy description. Any answers gratefully received.
>
> Sj
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