( ESNUG 237 Item 2 ) ---------------------------------------------- [3/29/96]
Subject: ( ESNUG 234 #2 ) "How To Borrow Synopsys Keys Within Your Company"
> Suppose your company has both East coast and West coast offices like, for
> example, Sun Microsystems. The people on the West coast won't get in
> until at least 11:00 East coast time, and the people on the East coast
> (officially) go home at 2:00 to 4:00 West coast time. The license keys are
> running 24 hours/day, why not temporarily use the ones from the other
> office while they aren't in the office? Here's how to use them...
From: [ NoName ]
John, please leave out my and my employer's name, OK?
Concerning the issue of sharing licenses across country, our Synopsys
license specifically states that the licenses can not be served to a machine
more than 10 miles distant from the license server. When we asked Synopsys
how much to convert our licenses to what they call a Wide-Area Network (WAN)
license, we learned that the WAN license costs about 20% extra.
Take into account that there are 5-6 hours of normal work time which overlap
between east and west coasts, and the fact that when the server goes down
during one coast's off hours, the other coast has no way to work or recover,
and you are talking about a very expensive solution. (While it is legally
and technically feasible to share licenses across countries, the problem set
that this solves is smaller than one might think.)
Synopsys, as we all should know, is not necesarily typical. Other companies
do not charge extra for WAN licenses.
- [ NoName ]
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From: [ One Synopsys Salesman ]
Hi John,
Regarding ESNUG 234-Item 2, "How To Temporarily Borrow Synopsys Keys From
Within Your Company", it is a *violation* of the Synopsys license agreement
to use licenses outside a site. A site is defined as a 5 mile radius from
the license server. If you look into it, I believe you'll find that all the
major EDA companies have similar restrictions.
- [ One Synopsys Salesman ]
[ Editor's Note: I was surprized to hear about this 5 mile rule, especially
since I know Synopsys software is designed to run on workstations that
deviate by as much as 4 hours (the time zone width of the U.S.) as shown
in the "System Installation & Configuration Guide" under the heading of
"Verifying the Date" (at the end of Ch. 4.) Knowing this 5 mile rule, I'd
like to advise users *not* to borrow non-WAN licences or you'll just set
yourself up for a dip into deep legal doodoo when you're caught. (I do
mean "when" not "if" -- they almost always find out eventually.) - John ]
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