Technical data
8 Miscellaneous
8.1 Terms of license
HDShredder is designed to offer you the highest possible technical flexibility. The HDShredder
license conditions are also designed not to limit your flexibility when using HDShredder. Since
you usually don not know at the beginning on how many computers and how often you will
use the software, we offer you a very simple and cost-effective license model, which restricts
you the least possible.
8.1.1 License model
The following table shows you the minimum number of licenses necessary for the respective
area of use.
Edition Private users Companies/Institutions Professionals
Free
sufficient insufficient insufficient
Basic
1 license insufficient insufficient
Standard
1 license 1 license per location
1)
insufficient
1 license per 5 PCs
2)
Professional
1 license 1 license per location
1)
1 license per dedicated PC
4)
1 license per 25 PCs
2)
1 license per technician
3)
Enterprise
1 license 1 license per location
1)
1 license per dedicated PC
4)
1 license per 100 PCs
2)
1 license per technician
3)
1)
License is taken into account for the respective other indicated criteria.
2)
Existing PC work stations, regardless of actual use of HDShredder.
3)
Technicians are all employees who use HDShredder simultaneously or for field service.
4)
PC which is exclusively used for HDShredder, e.g. as a deletion server.
In practice, the use of HDShredder can involve a different number of PCs according to the
area of use. Either the program is permanently used on one single computer, which the media
to be deleted is connected to when needed (dedicated PC). Or HDShredder is always used
directly on the respective computers, which the media to be deleted is already connected to;
mostly with only one usage per computer. To find a fair regulation for all use cases, you can
choose between a license per dedicated PC and a license for a lump number of work station
PCs where HDShredder will be used on. Furthermore, you need additional licenses if you use
HDShredder (potentially) in parallel on several PCs, e.g. if several service employees use HD-
Shredder independently from each other. That is why you need at least one license per branch
office because this also represents a (potential) parallel use.
8.1.2 Examples
The following examples refer to frequently occurring license situations.
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