FMS 3.5 Licensing

Hi Forum,
Just got my license for FMS 3.5 and I would like to set up a
test server.
Later I need to install the FMS 3.5 on our main server in a
data center.
Will this give me license issues?
Regards,
Rick

It won't cause problems. I move licenses from server to
server quite frequently, and never had any issues. AFAIK, FMS
doesn't "call home" to verify licenses.
That said, if you want to be in compliance with the license
agreement, you'll remove the license from the test server when you
install it on your production server.

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on Flash Media Server technology. For uninterrupted work of this
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