Support Request #10737
closedADTF3 plugin description executable shall work without license
Description
Supportanfrage
On our CI (jenkins) we want to build (not run) ADTF3 configurations.
However, unlinke in ADTF2, we need a valid license for every jenkins job just to generate to configuration.
This is not feasible - the plugin description shall be buidable without a license.
Lösung
The Plugin Description Generator itself is not protected by license, but certain components it loads are.
Without a valid Developer license on the build machine, you are not allowed to build anyway and would violate the license terms.
Please equip your build machines with developer licenses, as this has not changed in ADTF in any time, even if it was possible to build without a license (violating the license terms)
In ADTF 3.x this topic attracted attention and you will have to deal with it license term wise.
Maybe a License Server setup will be the most efforted way, the new (but currently not implemented) license mechanism will also provide a option for that, but this won't be available soon.
So License Server or node locked licenses (can also be longer than one year) must be done once on each machine.