Licence policy

We offer: single user licences for private and commercial use discounted multiuser licences. Please mail us single user licences for students (non commercial) 16-user licences for classrooms/laboratories (non commercial) 1.000 user licences for entire schools (non commercial)

No licence by subscription
No hardware protection system (dongle)
Not tied to a certain PC (node locking)
No module-hassle. Always the complete system
No activation codes
You'll get a installation CD which you simply might copy as a backup
No installer required
TARGET will not be calling home

Starting with a lower version, you might enlarge it later. For an upgrade you will pay the difference price plus about 20% of the initial version's price.

The licence of the free version and the light version is non commercial. But all functions are entirely active, no time restriction, no registration.

Important note:
You can create several backup CDs. You may copy a single user licence to
as many PCs as you like, but if you have a single user licence
you must make sure that it is running not more than once at a time.
In case of misuse TARGET 3001! gives you warning messages. Then please
contact us.

Updates and upgrades as well as multi user licences are only possible for
the current main versions. A purchase of an update or an upgrade abandons 
the initial version though it will still run. Both do not establish an
additional user licence. Old and current version in this respect must not
be used at the same time.

TARGET 3001! has a licence checking system giving out warning messages in case
your licence is used against this rule. If you do not terminate the reason
of misuse (you'll get warnings) TARGET 3001! will shut down completely and won't
start anymore. Only a purchase of further licences can restart it.
This licence checking system is working autonomously and does not send data to
IBF or contact IBF anyhow.

At no time there are any of your data transferred to us.

Only if you actively place a purchase order from out of the software (e.g. you
order a board manufacture at PCB-Pool) we get a copy. The time of starting and
ending TARGET 3001! is relevant for the licence check. If you switch your PC to
the sleep mode while TARGET 3001! is opened, the same TARGET 3001! licence
must not be used on another PC.

Don't use TARGET 3001! with a wrong system time and do not manipulate the INI-files.

Multiple use: How can I make sure that TARGET runs without trouble?

Best is to buy as much licences as you have users. Each user closes his TARGET at the end of his session. If you have more users than the number of licenced workstations (users) and if they all work in the same local network, you might wish to give an alert do the exceeding one. So you can provide an empty text file named TargetCounter.txt where all TARGETs which are currently started get recognized. If an additional user wants access, TARGET gives an alert that the number of permissions is reached at the moment.

For getting this, each TARGET 3001! should be installed as usual and started once and closed again. During this action the file Target.ini gets created. The path to it please find in menu Settings/ Settings (INI file) at the very top of the dialog. While TARGET is closed, please edit this Target.ini file using a simple text editor (e.g. MS-Notepad). In the section [Directory] enter the path to your text file, e.g.:

LicenseCounterFile='Z:\MyPath\TargetCounter.txt'

This file needs to be furnished with reading and writing permission for TARGET. Every starting TARGET now fills in to this file and if closing, it deletes its fill.