Dave
So I installed Keynote on a machine that I use strictly for displaying keynote and not editing purposes and I forgot to put in a license key for it. The thing is, it still displayed the keynote and was working perfectly fine. Is it ok for me to do this without purchasing additional licenses since I am only use it to display and not edit?
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I'm not qualified to answer that, but I'd think the answer is no...although you might get by with the technicality you won't use both copies simultaneously (or will you). BTW, you might consider exporting your presentation as a Quicktime video and then won't need Keynote on the display machine.
Dave
Dave
The Keynote is used strictly for presentation. Our communications team here creates a Keynote file and they push it to the Mac Mini to display the Keynote. That's all they are doing. We chose to go with Keynote rather than QuickTime output because in Keynote, if they were to change 1 slide or maybe take out 1 movie, it doesn't update the whole thing. it just updates the changes which is very nice if we ever get to larger keynotes.
Anyone can download the trial. It will allow you to edit documents for 30 days, after that, it becomes a Keynote Player only.
I think you would have to look at the license agreement for the trial software (if there is such an agreement) in order to answer this question.
From the licensing agreement:
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iwork.pdf
*2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.*
*A. Trial License.* If you are using the trial version of the Apple Software, this License allows you to install and use the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer for the sole purpose of evaluating the Apple Software. The trial version of the Apple Software expires thirty (30) days after the date you first launch the Apple Software. Upon the trial expiration, you may continue to open files in the trial version of the Apple Software, but you will not be able to save, print or export files.
So, you can use it fully for 30 days, after 30 days you can only use it as a Keynote, Numbers, and Pages viewer.
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iwork.pdf
*2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.*
*A. Trial License.* If you are using the trial version of the Apple Software, this License allows you to install and use the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer for the sole purpose of evaluating the Apple Software. The trial version of the Apple Software expires thirty (30) days after the date you first launch the Apple Software. Upon the trial expiration, you may continue to open files in the trial version of the Apple Software, but you will not be able to save, print or export files.
So, you can use it fully for 30 days, after 30 days you can only use it as a Keynote, Numbers, and Pages viewer.
o nice, so since i am only using it as a viewer, i should legally be ok? that is what i'm getting from the above quote. all editing is done on a different machine.
As long as there's no serial number entered into it, then you're ok.
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