Sharing licenses with remote offices

• Local Access Licenses (LALs) are for use by a single studio. This studio may have office locations up to 100km apart.
• Global Access Licenses (GALs) may be used by multiple studios under common ownership, with locations anywhere in the world.
• A Workstation license does not float between computers and is tied to the computer it is installed to. It may occasionally be moved to a different computer, though.

Moving licenses

• License ownership may not be transferred to another company or individual.
• You are allowed to move a license to a different one of your license servers, for example if you switch physical servers. You may do this 10 times per year.

Are licenses operating system dependent?

• No. Houdini licenses are operating system independent.

When does my (term based) license expire?

• Licenses expire one minute before midnight your local time on the date of expiry.
• For example, If your license says that it expires June 30th, it will expire at 11:59pm June 30th your license server's local time.

Can I use 2 computers for my workstation license?

• No. You may use 1 workstation license per computer. *If you would like to run Houdini on 2 computers, you will either need to purchase a floating license or 2 workstation licenses – 1 per computer. Alternatively, you can use login-based licensing and bind the license to your specific login.

Our licenses are set to expire before the expiry date on the invoice. Why?

• Temporary licenses are issued until payment has been received.
• Once our account receivables department receives payment, extensions will be issued to those licenses.
• If you have any questions, please contact your account manager or sales@sidefx.com.