[ros-dev] Getting a Windows Server 2003 license for the project?

[Colin Finck]

Ged Murphy wrote:
> It doesn’t allow more than one person to use the actual host machine for
> development purposes.

The restrictions are indeed harder than I thought, but two concurrent 
administrative connections using any accounts are possible (see 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814590/en-us). This doesn't even require 
any CALs.
I've just verified this in a Windows Server 2008 evaluation VM I had 
lying around.

Additional concurrent connections require a single User CAL _plus_ a 
single Terminal Server User CAL for each connection. These need to be 
registered in two license managers and will be bound to users upon 
connecting. Don't know how easy it is to unbind them again, but it's 
certainly complicated considering that Terminal Server CALs require 
personal registration at Microsoft. Not very user-friendly for our usage 
scenario in an Open-Source project ;-)
Finally, these additional connections would be non-administrative, so 
likely unusable if we want to test drivers. Would certainly be easier to 
just buy another Windows Server license if the two included concurrent 
connections don't suffice.

Cheers,

Colin