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Hello gents,
I have question I need to ask since it's my first time to see this message. I am using LabVIEW development license that are renewing every year, and I have found one PC in one of the departments that has this software and application on that PC. My question is, can I use this software to build exe files?? and what is the difference to use this software rather than use the one I already paying its renewal fees every year?! Than you.
An evaluation license that is valid 12872 days? That would be until January 1, 2060 or thereabout! My strong guess is that someone has been hacking on that computer. Or maybe the license manager went into a crazy spin, but regardless, it’s not a valid license. If you want to stay legal you should not use it without consulting with NI first about the validity of the associated serial number.
Evaluation license is usually a very time limited way of 30 days or similar in which the software has the full features to let you test if it works for you and then it will be deactivated. Currently after installation you even only get a 7 day period on first launch after which you can request an extension of 30 days or so. Then evaluation license is definitely inactive.
So either your computer has correct current time and someone hacked the license manager to make it think you have an evaluation license that is valid until 2060, or your computer thinks indeed that it is 1989 and someone just recently started an evaluation on that computer when it still had the correct time. The second would seem like an unlikely coincidence, especially considering that your screen shoot looks like a pretty old version of LabVIEW and the license manager.
@Omar-Abdelhameed wrote:
Thanks Rolf. What is your advice in this case?!
Check the clock on your PC. It may be off because of a bad CMOS battery, although a computer that resets to 1989 or earlier when the CMOS battery dies, would run a pre historic BIOS. It looks like a rather old LabVIEW installation, so the computer and OS is likely even older. But 1989, that would be a pre Pentium system even! At most maybe a 386DX!
Other than that, your Evaluation is simply not a valid license to use for production work. And since you say you have valid subscriptions licenses I would not risk using this license to build applications. It's definitely not a legally viable solution to let your subscription lapse since you have a working system already. This computer sooner or later will die, my guess is sooner, and then you are with no working license anyhow.
