Licensing question/suggestion/talking point

djMax · Post by **djMax** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:53 pm

So we love Vault. We've sold 15 licenses to our friends (no, really). We are also starting to love CruiseControl. We've also built a bunch of stuff to manage production deployments with Vault, Visual Studio, and ASP.Net, but are just starting to understand CC and where to take it. One of the situations we're running into now is that Vault makes a good tool for grabbing the most recent files to a production server from the source tree efficiently and safely (diffs, labels, blah blah). But we don't want customers having access to other customers parts of the tree. So in theory we would need user licenses for each customer, even though they are all read only and all for only a small part of the tree. What we end up doing now is a single user, which is stinky for many reasons. It could work if we had some sort of additional IP filter on parts of the tree or something.

The per-customer license makes it slightly less attractive as a distribution tool. What do you make of this situation, and the opportunities for some sort of "lesser" license for users like this? Or is this just not a Vault thing, but more a packaging/deployment tool thing?

GregM · Post by **GregM** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:06 pm

Do the customers need full history access, or just the latest versions of everything? If just the latest, perhaps setting up shadow folders with appropriate permissions is the way to go.

djMax · Post by **djMax** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:04 pm

full history access would be better, since then they can rollback quickly to labels.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:22 am

The per-customer license makes it slightly less attractive as a distribution tool. What do you make of this situation, and the opportunities for some sort of "lesser" license for users like this? Or is this just not a Vault thing, but more a packaging/deployment tool thing?

We don't have "read-only" licenses for Vault. We did have one other request for this, so I'll add your "vote" to the feature request.

SourceGear does offer discounts when you purchase "bundles" of licenses. That's something you might want to consider.

ismangil · Post by **ismangil** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:12 am

lbauer wrote: We don't have "read-only" licenses for Vault. We did have one other request for this, so I'll add your "vote" to the feature request.

Add that vote for me as well then. We have various needs for developers, support people to have read only access.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:04 am

Done.