Converting CS6 Windows License to Cross-Platform?

About a year ago I bought CS6 Design Standard for Windows. I recently replaced my Windows laptop with a Mac, but my desktop computer is still a Windows machine. I deactivated CS6 from my Windows laptop, and ideally I would like to be able to install my second copy on my Mac laptop, but obviously the platform-based licenses prevent me from easily doing this. Is there some way I can activate a copy on my Windows desktop and Mac laptop without buying a new license altogether?
Thanks!

I've seen that, but as far as I can tell from reading the documentation there, all I can do is swap my platform from CS6 Design Standard - Windows to CS6 Design Standard - Mac. What I'd ideally like is for some other option to exist where I could have one of my two copies installed on a Mac and the other installed on a Windows machine. Excuse me if it's possible to do that through this process, but nothing that I've read there indicates that I can.

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