Can we continue using Rhino 5 with an upgraded Rhino 6 license or there needs to be separate licenses on Zoo for Rhino 5 and 6?

There seems to be a dual R5/R6 license per that post that I cannot find documentation for.

It’s not a dual license, it’s a v5 license that was upgraded to v6. RH5 can still use the license, but so can RH6. It’s a single license and can only be used on one machine at a time.

When you upgrade from V5, you get a new V6 license. If you are using LAN Zoo 6, and add your V6 license, it will for a “Cluster” in the Zoo that contains both the V5 and V6 license that upgraded it. Any computer on the LAN can use the V5 OR the V6 license but not both. This keeps you compliant wit…

Thank you for the clarification.

Hi @John_Brock I have a customer who’s zoo always hands out the upgraded v5->v6 licenses first. Even though the user only has a new V6 installed, which is a problem when “V5 users” logs on late (They use plugins who isn’t updated and or approved for production yet) as they can only get a pure V6 l…

Hi Holo, this seems to be similar to [image] R5 gobbles up R6 license Zoo Hi Dale, thanks for getting back. With what you say about possibly modifying Zoo, do you mean that each instance of V5 would take up its own license? Or is this a typo (‘start v5 and start V6’)? …

In a parallel situation, I have a school client who has 1 Rhino/Mac Edu lab license plus 1 Rhino/Windows Edu lab license in a local Zoo. They want to upgrade both to V6. The question is if a V6 Windows machine grabs a license from the Zoo, will it always grab the upgraded Windows license? Because…

Hi, I had the same issue recently, my solution was to create a second zoo server on another computer. If a computer never needs the V6 it will target a RH5 only zoo, else it will target a RH5+RH6 zoo. I guess it could also be done with two small virtual machines instead of physical ones

I don’t like situations where we need to teach users to use “creative” workarounds. @dale How is the internal discussion coming along? Any solutions after two months? Personally I think both a full version and an upgraded version should qualify to open a V5 licesense, since the customer obviously…

There is currently no mechanism in Rhino and the LAN Zoo to make this possible. It is on the development list but it has to be thought through, designed, implemented, tested, and then deployed. “Creative” work-arounds are the only alternative now: Start V5 first Use the check out license tool Up…

Rhino 5 with Rhino 6 license

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axa May 31, 2018, 9:29am 12

Hi Holo,
this seems to be similar to

except in my case, an R5 might block an upgraded R5/R6 license. My temporary work-around is to check out the R6 license.

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