Licensing options - can someone clarify things?

[FridgeFreezer]

I'm currently developing in CW7.2 for a ColdFire V2 and have hit the size limit, so have just tried to find which licence I need to buy and now I just want to find Freescale's marketing & web design departments and slap them. I thought you were supposed to make spending money as easy and quick as possible, not an obfuscated minefield of confusing and out-of-date half-truths and dead ends. (This is what's known as constructive criticism, please pass it to the relevant departments with the aforementioned slap)

I think I have managed to decipher the marketing rubbish and decide that I need "CWP-BASIC" but the difference between floating & node-locked & USB dongle locked seems a bit hazy.

I develop on my laptop, but may need to move to another machine (EG newer laptop, office PC) as required, and either work at home or in the office. From what I've read, the server-based floating licence is rubbish over a net connection, so that rules it out. Node-lock seems to lock me to a system disk ID or MAC address, which would be no good (and is fakeable quite easily, although I'd rather avoid the hassle), and/or a USB dongle.

So, since the sales rubbish is tight-lipped about it, can someone clarify that if we spend $1000+ on software we can install it on multiple machines and just move the dongle between machines as required?

Oh and does anyone have the source code for a USB dongle emulator? (joke!)

[CrasyCat]

Hello

Yes if you plan to use the tool chain on several Host PC, but you are the only user of the software, you need to go for a dongle license.

Software can be installed on multiple Host PC. You just need to plug in the dongle in one of the Host PC USB port before you try to start the IDE, use the compiler or the debugger.

CrasyCat

[FridgeFreezer]

I'm now poised at the shopping basket screen with the boss's credit card - having selected CWP-BASIC-NL and "physical shipment", I'm double-checking the licensing FAQ and it seems to say there are three separate versions: floating, node-locked, and dongle-locked, yet I only have the option to buy CWP-BASIC-FL or CWP-BASIC-NL.

So before I spend/waste $1000 of the boss's money, can someone confirm that buying CWP-BASIC-NL via physical shipment will give me a USB dongle activated product?

Also, can someone slap the marketing/web department again for making it so bl**dy difficult to buy your product.

[stanish · Accepted solution]

Hi FridgeFreezer,

If you intend to lock the codewarrior to the USB dongle you should buy CWP-BASIC-NL and during the license activation you will select Host ID: Dongle ID (see attached screenshot)

You will have to buy also USB dongle if you don't have any:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=USB-LICENSE-DONGLE&fsrch=1&sr=10

Stanish

[FridgeFreezer]

Thanks Stanish,

It's frustrating that none of the codewarrior stuff on the website mentions buying a USB dongle, if you hadn't given me that link I'd never have found it or even been aware I needed to buy the thing separatey.

[stanish]

FridgeFreezer,

Thanks for your feedback.

I'm going to report this issue to the responsible team within Freescale.

Stanish