RTE license restrictions

[viSci]

Is it true that the LabVIEW RTE has an unlimited license? Of course I know that some toolkits are exceptions but I seem to recall that

at one time NI required at least one piece of their HW to allow unlimited use of the RTE on a target machine.

[asbo]

AFAIK, you can install the RTE and use it anywhere. It would be a big shot to the foot to impose restrictions on the base RTE, I think.

[crelf]

Is it true that the LabVIEW RTE has an unlimited license?

That is also my understanding.

[viSci]

Yeah, that makes sense. But I seem to remember a very long time ago getting a quote from NI for a pack of 50

RTE's. I guess only old timers like me can remember such antiquated practices.

[Ton Plomp]

I'm not sure if your allowed to install the RTE in Iraq or North Korea based on the Export rules imposed by the US.

But we buy LabVIEW at NI in the Netherlands so we might not be under that law.

Ton

[ShaunR]

Yeah, that makes sense. But I seem to remember a very long time ago getting a quote from NI for a pack of 50

RTE's. I guess only old timers like me can remember such antiquated practices.

Yup. It used to be 50 about 15 years ago (we moaned like buggery!). There is no restriction now, however.

[hooovahh]

Yup. It used to be 50 about 15 years ago (we moaned like buggery!). There is no restriction now, however.

See this confuses me a bit. I haven't been using LabVIEW for 15 years so I don't know how it worked back then, but how could they restrict that? Wasn't 15 years ago version 5.x or so? Didn't 5.x EXE's build in the RTE into the EXE so no installer was needed on Windows machines, you just run the EXE on any PC?

I started using LabVIEW around version 6 and early 7 and I don't ever remember having to buy any RTE licenses. So for as long as I can remember LabVIEW has always had a free way to run EXEs.

[Ryan Podsim]

I don't remember the Desktop RTE having a restriction.

I do remember the Real-Time RTE having a restriction unless it ran on NI hardware, something to do with the RT OS mostly I believe.

[ShaunR]

See this confuses me a bit. I haven't been using LabVIEW for 15 years so I don't know how it worked back then, but how could they restrict that? Wasn't 15 years ago version 5.x or so? Didn't 5.x EXE's build in the RTE into the EXE so no installer was needed on Windows machines, you just run the EXE on any PC?

I started using LabVIEW around version 6 and early 7 and I don't ever remember having to buy any RTE licenses. So for as long as I can remember LabVIEW has always had a free way to run EXEs.

They didn't restrict it. It was a condition in the licencing.

[Dave Graybeal]

I don't remember the Desktop RTE having a restriction.

I do remember the Real-Time RTE having a restriction unless it ran on NI hardware, something to do with the RT OS mostly I believe.

I believe that LabVIEW Real-Time still requires a Deployment License for Real-Time Targets. I think the NI RT Controllers include this during purchase if you choose the RT OS Options.

[viSci]

Would anyone venture to guess if the 'unlimited' desktop RTE includes Linux installations?

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

Would anyone venture to guess if the 'unlimited' desktop RTE includes Linux installations?

It should AFAIK, at least if you as the application developer legally own the LabVIEW for Linux development system.