How to present my Matlab Home license to someone else ?

I'd like to present my recently purchased Matlab Home license + toolbaxes with someone. The license is not activated yet. How is this achievable ?

[dpb]

Only official TMW sales/licensing support can determine if what you're wanting to do is within the license terms or not, but as a user, my inclination is that you are not allowed to do that. The license is for you as named/registered with Mathworks for the license; the other person is not you.

Whether if you were to explain the situation to a MW rep they would say such were ok in a particular situation I'd not even venture to guess...

[Star Strider]

I brought this to the attention of TMW shortly after it appeared. Someone from Installation and Licensing will respond.

[Ihor Makar]

thank you for the response very much! I just was thinking that it might be possible to change the owner of the license... And the license installation is anyway imitted to only one machine. I used my name as it was required to match the credit card holder.

[Walter Roberson]

Officially, Home licenses (and Student licenses) are not transferable. However, I would expect that Mathworks would be okay with giving an unactivated Home or Student license as a present; I would imagine that it is common for Student licenses to end up being purchased on parent's credit cards.

Answer 1

[Mayank Sengar]

You are permitted to install MATLAB Student and Home on up to two computers and you may transfer a MATLAB Student or Home license up to two times per year. MATLAB Student and Home must be deactivated before it can be transferred to a new machine. For more details, leverage the following link.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/142388-how-do-i-transfer-a-student-or-home-license-to-a-new-computer

[Walter Roberson]

@Mayank Sengar

Why do Mathworks employees keep making the same mistake? I have pointed out multiple times the exact wording in the license terms that explicitly prohibit Student license or Home license from being installed on more than one computer at a time. It is not even ambiguous: it is explicit in the license terms. The license terms take precedent over any support articles; Mathworks would have to explicitly override those terms on a case-by-case basis.

[Walter Roberson]

The conditions about transfering licenses are that it must stay with the same owner, except in the case where the license is a company asset and the new owner has bought the entire company (not just auctioned assets for example.)

This is, however, overridden by the national laws of (if I recall correctly) Germany and Denmark, which explicitly permit transfer of software licenses, under the principles of what is often called The Doctrine of First Sale.

[Walter Roberson]

Your first version of your answer (which you deleted) was a more accurate description of what the license terms say.

However, those license terms do not take into account the reality that a fair number of student licenses are purchased on parent's credit cards, and so technically those licenses are owned by the appropriate parent. That is a reality that in practice Mathworks is going to willingly overlook if the first activation is in the name of the student and the student has control over the software.

Another point that Mathworks almost certainly willingly overlooks is the requirement that the license only be installed on computers that the Student user "owns or leases". A lot of students use family computers, or computers provided by parents but which are technically owned by the parents. In practice, Mathworks is going to ignore the clause as long as the software is under family control and the student is the only one who uses the license.

[Ihor Makar]

thank you all for the help and the response! In my case, the license successfully moved by mathworks from my account to another account. Now, the only owner of the Home license is the person I wanted to move the license to, and not me (who actually purchased it). Thank you for the assistance again!