Omniscope Licensing

Overview of terms and full text of agreements

Activated editions of Omniscope are licensed on an annual basis, although multi-year licenses and perpetually-licensed bundles are available. Licenses include all upgrades and support for the licensed edition for the duration of the license, except for perpetual licenses, which are also accompanied by annual support payments. Perpetual key support payments enable free upgrades, access to general support, and key insurance in case of lost keys.

Omniscope licensing is per-account. You must install with administrator privileges, but activate while logged into the account in which the activated Omniscope will be used. Otherwise, the Omniscope will be activated only in the Administrator account, and will revert to a free Viewer in all the other user accounts. Enterprise Editions running continuous Scheduler and Generator functions on always-on servers should be activated using administrative accounts that do not logout.

Omniscope keys can be de-activated on one machine and moved to another, but you may do this unassisted a maximum of three times, after which you will need to contact us. You must de-activate Omniscope and recover the key before re-building a machine or re-formatting the hard drive. Software support payments on perpetual keys must be kept current to maintain connectivity with our support servers for updates and refresh of subsequent versons, ability to move installations via de-activation/refresh and replacement key insurance if machines fail, are stolen etc.

The standard Omniscope End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) contains a restriction in Section 2 regarding external distribution or publishing of Omniscope IOK files for commercial purposes. If you intend to distribute Omniscope files to paying customers using the free Viewer, a separate Commercial Publishing License may be required to amend your standard EULA to remove the restriction on external commercial publishing via the free Viewer. Omniscope installations that are fully-licensed for commercial publishing use different keys that add explicit notices to every file they create. Workgroup installations only produce IOM files and effectively include a Commercial Publishing License at no extra charge, since they do not publish, refresh or enable features in free Viewers. No Commercial Publishing License is required to produce and distribute any number of Flash DataPlayers.

Software Support is supplied according to the terms of our Software Support Agreement. Click to see a full listing of licensed 3rd-party software included in Omniscope.

Omniscope Standard Restricted End Use Licenses

Allows all internal use and non-commercial distribution/publishing of IOK files

The standard Omniscope End User License Agreement (EULA) is a restricted publishing license that grants rights to use the software, with regular updates and support, for unlimited internal or non-profit file distribution. External distribution/publication/refresh of Omniscope files for non-commercial purposes IS permitted under the terms of the standard EULA. Distribution of regular reporting files to clients under a contract whereby payment is for services other than hosting & delivery of data in IOK format is also permitted under the standard EULA. Commercial distribution of IOK files to customers paying only for the IOK files, and/or re-formatting remotely-hosted customer data for delivery in IOK format requires an additional Commercial Publishing License. All IOK files created by restricted end use licensed installations display the notice "not for commercial publishing" on the files created.

Omniscope Commercial Publishing Licenses

Allows unrestricted commercial distribution/publishing of IOK files and enables key features in free Viewers

Before you can publish data commercially in Omniscope IOK file format, i.e. send IOK files regularly to paying clients, charging a subscription fee only for access to the data published in IOK files, or providing clients the option of downloading their remote-hosted data as Omniscope IOK files, we must first agree an unrestricted Commercial Publishing License. Your Commercial Publishing License agreement will include supply of new activation keys to remove the "not for commercial publishing" restriction notice from all IOK files produced by your unrestricted license installations.

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