Windows to Mac license

[Grozev]

Hello, guys,

I bought AD for windows last year and now I have switched to macOS. Is there any way I can switch the license from the win to mac version, or there's no such thing?

[MEB]

Hi Grozev,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

No, there's no way to switch licenses between platforms, sorry.

[Grozev]

24 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi Grozev,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

No, there's no way to switch licenses between platforms, sorry.

 

Thanks for the quick answer!

Is there any legal way to sell/trade my license key, or this is against your terms and conditions?

[MEB]

Hi Grozev,

According to the EULA, no. 

 

The License granted to you is limited, non-transferable and non-exclusive.

 

A little below it says:

 

• you have no right to rent, lend, lease, sell, supply, transfer or distribute, transfer, redistribute or sublicense the Serif Software.

 

Full license terms here.

[Grozev]

6 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi Grozev,

According to the EULA, no. 

 

The License granted to you is limited, non-transferable and non-exclusive.

 

A little below it says:

 

• you have no right to rent, lend, lease, sell, supply, transfer or distribute, transfer, redistribute or sublicense the Serif Software.

 

Full license terms here.

 

I see, thanks again for the quick answer.

[MEB]

You're welcome 

[John Rostron]

An unlikely scenario, but suppose I decided to switch to using a Mac and decided to sell or give away my desktop and laptop PC? Would the new owner be able to legitimately use the installed Affinity software?

John

[walt.farrell]

That is a question probably best answered by someone appropriately versed in the laws that apply where you live (or where you purchased the software).

The provisions of the license, if taken at face value, would seem to indicate "no", though I am not a lawyer and am not competent to make a sound legal judgment on that.  

However, there are some rights, in some jurisdictions, that are inherent and cannot be denied. Such a transfer might be one of them, depending on where the transfer occurs.

(This is a potential issue with most software licenses that I have seen, I believe.)

[firstdefence]

I would have thought the licence is for the software to be installed, used and updated to the point of a major version change. By whom is not the issue, so you could have a thousand people using the same computer and each would be able to use the software because a licence is generally for 1 PC/Mac... It doesn't matter who uses the PC.

As far as I am aware you can't licence an individual to use a particular software... I could be wrong

[Wikinger]

1 hour ago, John Rostron said:

......... supposons que je décide de passer à l'utilisation d'un Mac et décide de vendre ou de donner mon PC de bureau et portable? Le nouveau propriétaire pourrait-il utiliser légitimement le logiciel Affinity installé?

Bonsoir.

Selon:

https://affinity.serif.com/fr/license/?_ga=2.222604764.674330532.1515788094-180278329.1515788094

Paragraph "Miscellaneous" I'm afraid that this is not possible (unless it's a mistake).

 

[Alfred]

38 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

As far as I am aware you can't licence an individual to use a particular software... I could be wrong

 

As far as I'm aware, most software is only licensed to an individual or an organization. When you purchase a licence, the software is licensed to you personally, so if you decide to sell or give away your computer you should uninstall any purchased software beforehand, leaving only the operating system in place.

 

[John Rostron]

18 hours ago, Alfred said:

If you decide to sell or give away your computer you should uninstall any purchased software beforehand, leaving only the operating system in place.

That is what I would probably do. I reckon I have had my money's worth in the time I have been using Affinity.

And just to emphasize: this was a highly hypothetical scenario (shifting to a Mac, that is).

John

[R C-R]

On 1/12/2018 at 2:51 PM, Alfred said:

As far as I'm aware, most software is only licensed to an individual or an organization. When you purchase a licence, the software is licensed to you personally, so if you decide to sell or give away your computer you should uninstall any purchased software beforehand, leaving only the operating system in place.

The Affinity licenses grant you the right to install & use the software on computers that you personally own or control. It should be obvious that if you sell or give away a computer, you neither own nor control it; therefore, you cannot legitimately leave the Affinity software on it.

 

When selling or giving away a computer, it is a good idea to erase the drive (securely, if possible), reformat it, & reinstall just the OS. If you do not do this, you risk leaving tons of recoverable personal data on the drive. Deleting files in the normal way does not remove the data they contain from the drive; it just deletes the file system's reference to it. There are widely available utilities that provide a secure erase function for iron drives; for modern ones a 3 pass secure erase should be adequate. Note that it may not be possible to securely erase a SSD completely, particularly one that has seen heavy use. The saving grace for them is the un-erased data is generally much, much more difficult to recover.