That provides a single license ID for a specific number of active users. Our company isn´t located in the US, so thank you for your offer, but that probably would not help us.Īt one point in the distant past, we were using multi-seat stand-alone (MSSA) licensing. How big of a fine are we talking about here either first impuls was also to simply uninstall the offending software, but Autodesk explicitely states that that is forbidden from the date of the letter on and doing so would probably be considered an willful act of license infringement or whatever that is called. Can my boss be fined for (although unknowingly) letting me wrongly install a student version of maya, that has not ever been used in any of the companies projects? Or would only I be fined with that?Ģ. Just the installation of the student licensed maya and possibly some maya files I put there from my collaborators of the personal project.ġ.
The auditor will be able to scan our server and will not find any commercially used files for maya. Like I said, I EXCLUSIVELY used maya to open files for my personal project, I haven´t saved anything or created any files with it, especially not in collaboration with any professional clients. Require such services in the future, please contact me directly. If you do not have this service available to you and Services, sometimes provided by your reseller that can perform a SAMĮngagement with you and determine your license compliance before an
Of compliance so you can police yourself in the future.
Intent of an audit is not to punish you, but to show you where you are out You'll have a limited time to get your ducks in a row before you areĪudited, so I suggest you wisely become compliant while you can. Give your boss and IT a heads up on this issue so they can be prepared. And they will impose fines and/or otherĬonsequences if you do not meet their terms of service. To be enough to prevent the software from being found in an audit.Īutodesk audits their software. My recommendation is to remove the software immediately as well as the
Stealing, but it also looks completely unprofessional to clients and otherĭesigners who you work with. Not only that, but you have potentially poisonedĪny work that you've opened with that software, especially if you madeĬhanges or saved any work - as it immediately converts those drawings andĪny reference files to an educational work. Installing the educational license at work is probably the worst offenseįound during an audit.
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