The ASP.NET PowerPack is licensed on a per-hostname basis. When you buy a license, you
will get an encrypted license key which tells the software which hostname (or hostnames) the PowerPack
is licensed to run on.
New versions of the code will always be available for download from this site. The downloaded
version can be used without a license key for development or personal purposes, but will only be available if the site is
accessed as ‘locally’, using a local name. Any access using a global site, host, or domain name will
require a license key.
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It’s really important that when you buy the license you specify exactly
the web site / hostname which will be used to access your pages.
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For example, this site is ‘opinionatedgeek.com’, since that is the domain in use. Buying a
license for ‘opinionatedgeek.com’ means the controls will be licensed for accessing the
site as http://opinionatedgeek.com/ and http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/. However, the
license will prevent access to sub-domains and sub-sites such as http://myweb.opinionatedgeek.com.
This will require additional licenses.
The license grants free development and personal use of the ASP.NET PowerPack as long as the site is
accessed using a local name. The following are all acceptable types of local name:
- localhost - ‘localhost’ is always an alias for the local server.
- 127.0.0.1 - ‘127.0.0.1’ is always the loopback IP address for the current machine.
- myserver - any local host name without any periods (‘.’) is acceptable.
The following are not acceptable names for free usage, and thus require a license:
- www.mydomain.com - any fully-qualified hostname usage requires a license.
- 192.214.150.12 - any IP address other than ‘127.0.0.1’ requires a license.
- mysubdomain.myserver.co.uk - any subdomains of licensed domains require an additional license.
Custom licensing may be possible -
contact us if you are interested.
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