How many computers to install Affinity Designer

[dcrodwell]

Hey Walt,

 

Got it installed...running like a champ!!!

You are a gentleman and scholar!!

Thanks you!

[Twitch]

Help please. We have 2 desktops and 4 laptops. Has only been installed on my desktop so far (commercial purposes) but my 6yo son wants to make something for his mother and I. Would it be an issue to install design/photo on the second desktop for him to make stuff for personal use? As in would I be able to use my copies to create for commercial use while he is behind me using the same key for personal use on another machine?

He's interested in what I do and don't want to stifle that lol but also know he's going to have a big learning curve lol

Thanks all!

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Twitch said:

Help please. We have 2 desktops and 4 laptops. Has only been installed on my desktop so far (commercial purposes) but my 6yo son wants to make something for his mother and I. Would it be an issue to install design/photo on the second desktop for him to make stuff for personal use? As in would I be able to use my copies to create for commercial use while he is behind me using the same key for personal use on another machine?

He's interested in what I do and don't want to stifle that lol but also know he's going to have a big learning curve lol

Thanks all!

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

As long as they are all Windows or all MacOS and as long as no one but you uses the application for commercial purposes, you can install and use the application on as many computers as you want.

[RJN]

On 3/5/2021 at 11:24 AM, Alfred said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, David.

1. No. There are separate licences for each platform (Mac, Windows or iPad).

2. No. A Mac is a Mac, so one Mac licence would suffice for any MacBook, iMac or M1 Mac that you own or control.

Hi, I purchased affinity designer and photo today on my work Mac (it’s not for commercial use), via my personal AppStore account which is linked to my personal email. 
 

I signed up to Affinity and set a password for my account

When I got home tonight to install both apps on my personal device, when I tried to sign in I got multiple error messages saying my password was incorrect? I used the reset password option, reset it and used exactly the same password as before and was able to sign in at home. 
 

And no I didn’t accidentally use the wrong password. 
 

When I get to work tomorrow will I be logged out and will I have problems signing in again? Why would I not be able to sign in on both computers? The error was nothing to do with “this is a commercial use issue” - it was saying explicitly my password was incorrect 

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, RJN said:

I signed up to Affinity and set a password for my account

Which account? If it is for your forum account or for anything you have purchased from the Serif Affinity Store, it has nothing to do with anything you purchased from the Mac App Store ("MAS" for short).

All MAS purchases, whether from Serif Affinity or not, are linked to your Apple ID & its password. So to install an Affinity app you purchased from the MAS on another Mac, open the App Store app on that Mac & if necessary sign in with your Apple ID & its password.

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, RJN said:

I signed up to Affinity and set a password for my account

Do you mean that you installed the program, and then started it, and Registered the program when it asked if you wanted to do that? That would create an account at the Affinity Store if you did not already have one. Note that this account would be entirely separate from your account here in the forum. It might happen to have the same email address, and/or the same password, but that is entirely up to you. It might also have an email address and password completely different from your account for these forums.

But if you mean that you Registered the program, then when you installed it on your home machine you could have either signed-in to the program or registered (again) when prompted after you started the program. The same password as you specified during the earlier registration should have worked.

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But if you mean that you Registered the program, then when you installed it on your home machine you could have either signed-in to the program or registered (again) when prompted after you started the program. The same password as you specified during the earlier registration should have worked.

@RJN said these were Mac apps bought from the "AppStore," which I assume means the Mac App Store. That means they will not show up as Affinity Store purchases whether he or she registered them or not & there would be no way to install them on another Mac from anywhere other than the Mac App Store. The password required for that is the one associated with the Apple ID used to make MAS purchases.

That password is not necessarily the same as the one used when registering the app (& for security reasons it should not be).

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, R C-R said:

@RJN said these were Mac apps bought from the "AppStore," which I assume means the Mac App Store. That means they will not show up as Affinity Store purchases whether he or she registered them or not & there would be no way to install them on another Mac from anywhere other than the Mac App Store. The password required for that is the one associated with the Apple ID used to make MAS purchases.

That password is not necessarily the same as the one used when registering the app (& for security reasons it should not be).

Correct, and I said nothing about installing them from the Affinity Store.

I was discussing Registering the application, which would happen both at the office and later at home when the application was installed from the MAS.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

I was discussing Registering the application, which would happen both at the office and later at home when the application was installed from the MAS.

The problem @RJN wrote about is not being able to install the apps on his home computer because the password he is entering is being rejected. It has nothing to do with a registered app or the password used to sign into a registered account. Neither one is relevant when trying to install an app that was purchased from the MAS.

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

The problem @RJN wrote about is not being able to install the apps on his home computer because the password he is entering is being rejected. It has nothing to do with a registered app or the password used to sign into a registered account. Neither one is relevant when trying to install an app that was purchased from the MAS.

But the scenario described in the first post was "signing in to Affinity" after the install, which should be for product registration.

And then at home, "signing in" with the same password didn't work, and a password reset was required. Again, any "signing in" to Affinity would be for registration, not for installation.

Until we get clarification we won't know for sure what @RJN meant.

[R C-R]

27 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Until we get clarification we won't know for sure what @RJN meant.

It seems pretty clear that @RJN purchased the apps from the MAS. Therefore whatever he or she meant by "I signed up to Affinity and set a password for my account" is irrelevant for installing the apps on the home computer because that Affinity password has nothing to do with installing anything from the MAS.

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

It seems pretty clear that @RJN purchased the apps from the MAS. Therefore whatever he or she meant by "I signed up to Affinity and set a password for my account" is irrelevant for installing the apps on the home computer because that Affinity password has nothing to do with installing anything from the MAS.

Yes, but we don't know for sure when during the process of installing at home they got the errors. It could have been after installation, as that is a legitimate time to be "signing in to Affinity" and needing the password they set earlier.

[5state1year]

So, in reading this thread I just realized that when I paid for my daughter to have affinity photo on her laptop, since she lives in my house and it's for personal use, I didn't actually have to pay again, correct? Too bad I can't apply that purchase towards designer or gift it to someone else. 

[Lars-Daniel]

On 6/5/2018 at 5:56 PM, MEB said:

non-transferable

This is against the law within the states of the European Union. Here, a used license can be resold without the consent of the author. The regulation is therefore invalid for customers within the European Union.

Please read about it in legal dispute C-128/11 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ). The European countries have corresponding regulations in their national copyright laws.

Press release: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdf

Addition:
The ECJ ruling is based on the EU Directive 2009/24/EC on the legal protection of computer programs, which regulated the copyright of software. From the point of view of the European Parliament and the European Council, software applications are to be treated like literary works: they are fundamentally worthy of protection.

Edited October 21, 2021 by Lars-Daniel

[Alfred]

On 5/18/2021 at 11:26 PM, 5state1year said:

So, in reading this thread I just realized that when I paid for my daughter to have affinity photo on her laptop, since she lives in my house and it's for personal use, I didn't actually have to pay again, correct? Too bad I can't apply that purchase towards designer or gift it to someone else. 

The important point here is not whether your daughter lives in your house but whether you “own or control” her computer. If she owns it and you have no say in what she installs on it, then you neither own nor control it and she therefore needs a separate licence.

[Adinda]

Hi everyone, 

i want to ask, i Just change my laptop, do i have to buy a new license or i can use my previous one?

What should i do

 

 

 

[IanSG]

38 minutes ago, Adinda said:

Hi everyone, 

i want to ask, i Just change my laptop, do i have to buy a new license or i can use my previous one?

What should i do

If your new laptop is running the same OS as the old one you don't need a new license.

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, IanSG said:

If your new laptop is running the same OS as the old one you don't need a new license.

For the avoidance of doubt, it doesn’t need to be exactly the same OS, it just needs to be the same platform (Mac, Windows, or iPad). So if your old laptop ran Windows 10 and your new one runs Windows 11 you can still use your old licence.