CC & CS4 - I'm doing a clean install of Mavericks

I'm doing a clean install of Mavericks on my Macbook Pro soon - no particular reason, just time to clean out the clutter. Currently I have both CS4 and CC on my laptop but don't plan on reinstalling CS4 after the clean install. However, if somewhere down the road (say 5 years from now) I decided to opt out of CC will I be able to install CS4?
Thanks,
Phil
I was hoping to post this question to tech support at Adobe but could not drill down far enough to find that option

However, if somewhere down the road (say 5 years from now) I decided to opt out of CC will I be able to install CS4?
Will there still be snow in Alaska in 5 years? Who's to say. By that time there could be a million technical reasons making it impossible to install these versions from Adobe no longer providing activation servers to OSX having devolved even further into an iOS clone. You're realyl asking something that even Adobe can't answer...
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