Licensing Do's and Don'ts

In GENESIS version 11 the licensing philosophy is designed to reflect modern IT environments. Previous licensing in GENESIS64 (version 10) used a 3rd party binary file licensing model that had strong anti-piracy features such as hardware locking, time tamper detection, etc. but had the tendency to cause false positives. For example, clock changes, a sudden power loss, or a VM with a v10 software license moving VM hosts could trigger errors and invalidate the license.

The licensing in version 11 is not susceptible to the same issues. Version 11 licensing is built into the product itself and based on a simple signed file format. This provides licensing that is far more resilient and compatible with actions such as anti-virus scans, system backups, defragmenting a hard drive, or VM hosting applications. This license file can also be downloaded again from the licensing website if it ever needs to be accessed again.

By default, a version 11 license is bound to the computer where it is activated using a software license as the preferred licensing mechanism. If you need a license that you can move between computers, you can consider to bind it to a USB security key instead.

Version 11 licensing will let you try any module, even those that are not licensed and then warn you via a status bar and a watermark in Workbench and GraphWorX that you are using unlicensed modules.

The warnings will continue to escalate over time, but the license will not stop you from using the functionality.

Do’s:

  • Use version 11 licensing on VMs – snapshot, restore, move hosts – all work just fine.

  • Backup your license as part of your normal backup procedures in compliance with the End User License Agreement.

  • Try different modules to see if they will meet your requirements.

  • If the v11 license gets deleted from the computer, simply re-download from the licensing website.

  • Continue to use your preferred anti-virus applications.

  • Review the Licensing Troubleshooting FAQs.

Don'ts:

  • Don't plan deployments around the hardware-locked or cloud licensing variants from version 10. Version 11 uses the resilient signed-file license described above, which you can bind either to the computer or to a USB security key.

  • Don't panic if you lose your license file. In the rare case your version 11 license becomes invalidated, follow the steps to recover a lost license.