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Obtaining licenses from another company

Obtaining licenses from another company

Obtaining licenses from another company

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A local company to mine has gone into administration our current CEO is a board member and has asked me if there is a possibility to transferring a license, has anyone had any experience in doing this?
James
 

RE: Obtaining licenses from another company

I sold my license to my employer years ago. Luckily, I had a good VAR and they were a lot of help. Anything I would say about your situation would only be speculation. Call your VAR and talk to the highest level person you can get to. They will know the drill.

RE: Obtaining licenses from another company

From what I recall licenses can not be transferred or sold between companies.  The only way is if one company is bought by another company.   

RE: Obtaining licenses from another company

You do not need to transfer ownership of the licenses if you have Standalone licenses.  You need only transfer the use of the license with the Transfer License function that comes with every install of SolidWorks.  

Just Transfer the licenses (I think its under the Help pulldown menu) from some of your workstations and uninstall SolidWorks from those stations. Your vendor can then use your serial number to install the same number of licenses onto their computers.  If you ever need to retreive your licenses from your vendor, you can ask them to use the same function to deactivate the licenses on their systems.  If they do not comply, you can ask your VAR to do it.  

This way, you retain control over your copies of SolidWorks.

Matt Lorono
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RE: Obtaining licenses from another company

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Your vendor can then use your serial number to install the same number of licenses onto their computers.
Wait till they try to get upgrades or tech support. If this doesn't pass through the VAR to SW there might be trouble.  

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RE: Obtaining licenses from another company

Work for hire is very common, and its fairly common to provide SW licenses to those individuals while they work for you.

Matt Lorono
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RE: Obtaining licenses from another company

But that isn't the case for the OP.

The original 'owner' is a company under administration (i.e going belly-up). So the OPs company is wanting to transfer permanent ownership to themselves

RE: Obtaining licenses from another company

Missed that.  Yeah, VAR is needed.  There shouldn't be any fees associated with the transfer of ownership, but there may be a fee to re-start the subscription service for the new owner.

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