Rhino licensing modell to create and spread server/cloud-side geometry?

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Hi Dale and Bob,

I have here a prospect, who wants to create a specialized plug-in for the fashion industry to offer spreading server/cloud-side fashion geometry with Rhino.

Is there a licensing modell for server side geometry creation in Rhino?

Thanks and have a nice weekend

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com

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Hi Michael, as far I know there is no license model that allows a Rhino installation on a web-server. But it should be possible to access the web server (a database or so) via a plugin, create some geometry on a workstation and upload the files. Maybe @brian can tell a bit more?

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Hi Michael,

Our standard license agreement applies in this case. Paraphrasing, there must be a license of Rhino for each concurrent user, running on a computer that is under your control.

A pattern that works in this scenario is to have a VM instance (such as Amazon EC2) that is configured to run Rhino using a Zoo license. Whenever a new user connects to the application, bring up a new EC2 instance with a new copy of Rhino. That Rhino will obtain a license from the Zoo running in the private LAN. Any HTTP requests that are serviced by the web front-end will be routed to the appropriate Rhino instance in the back-end.

FYI @bobmcneel

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Sorry for side-lining this one, but apparently our legal department isn’t paraphrasing it quite like that. The EULA says “on any computers owned by you” and “on computers you own”…

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Yeah, you’re right. We’re currently reviewing the wording; more in the next few days.

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Hi Brian,

great, thank you for the details, this helps very much.

Take care

Michael
www.flexiCAD.com