Is there a limit to how many times the mlm.opt can be edited per year?

Is htere a limit ot how many times the mlm.opt file can be edited? Specifically changing the list of named users as engineers move between projects.

Answer 1

[dpb]

For named license, the standard restriction is four (4) updates per 12 month period. It didn't specify how it counted the period -- beginning with the date of the license activation or with a change. While this appears to be the base policy, I would suspect that Mathworks would grant an occasional exception were it to be found necessary up to a point.

As per usual, the definitive answer will have to come directly from Mathworks Sales Support.

[Walter Roberson]

I don't know how this could possibly be enforced.

Especially when you are administering a group license. If you have (for example) 100 licenses managed as a group license, then it would not be at all unusual to have reason to add or remove more than four times in one year.

[dpb]

That may be so, in a practical sense, but the words are still in the distributed license text file for what they're worth.

The sections below provide the specific details of each License Option, License

Use, and the Specific Program Use Rights.

...

1. License Options

1.1. Individual License Option

...

(iii) The Licensee may redesignate the Named User authorized to use a

Program, whether temporarily or not, up to four (4) times in any twelve

(12) month period, except that Student and Home Licenses are not

transferable.

...

1.2. Designated Computer License Option

...

(iv) The Licensee may redesignate the Computer, whether temporarily or not,

up to four (4) times in any twelve (12) month period.

I guess only trying and seeing if you get License Error 668 or not is how to find out if it is still ticking in the background.

Although maybe the network/instutional license conditions differ? I couldn't find an actual copy to look at, the above is from an individual license...

As always, the definitive answer for the OP is to call Sales Support and ask.

[Walter Roberson]

If you are using mlm.opt then you are not using an individual license: you are using a group license or some form of Networked license.