(NetRestore images) licensing iWorks in Old Computers

i have a question
actually in the company when i work, we have a Mac mini server with the net install service works, for create the images we take a iMac (21.5 Inch, Late 2013) with iWorks (free) apps Include (https://www.apple.com/la/creativity-apps/mac/up-to-date/ ),
According the update program the computers bought after of Octuber 01, 2013 can install iwokrs free,
if we like deployment the image in older computers bought before of Octuber 01, 2013, we would have licensing problems on that computers ?

nfsd is enabled and running. both exports and showmount show the same volumes but there is a slight difference; I had changed the name of the volume the netinstalls were on because it had a space in the name initially (I read somewhere that may be an issue) - both exports and showmount show the new name and the old name but showmount states that the old name is offline. Both, however, do reference the new name - so I think this is alright.
I've tried network booting a client again and it, once again, sees the image but never gets further than the spinning gear and apple logo.
Really wondering if this whole image-from-a-reference-build IS true. Seems silly, though - from 10.3 to 10.6 I was always able to make images from combo-updated boxes - don't know why that'd change so dramatically now.

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As a workaround I've created my image and used the .dmg with an old working netrestore image.

Hi Patrick,
If you are having issues creating a NetRestore image in System Image Utility, you may find the following articles helpful (apologies if you have already seen them):
OS X Server: System Image Utility requires Recovery HD partition to create a NetRestore image - Apple Support
OS X Server: Creating a single NetBoot, NetInstall or NetRestore image for multiple Mac computers - Apple Support
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I am pulling out what little hair I have on this one, so any help is greatly appreciated.
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Please tell me I am missing something simple, I cannot keep creating an image of the same computer expecting a different result. Isn't that the definition of insanity?
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I'm fumbling through this process as well and find it incredible that there is practically nothing from Apple which documents the full process that is required of us. All I have been able to find are a few paragraphs which tell me that I want NETBOOT images for getting my computers up to the point of being imaged and that I want NETRESTORE images for cloning of these machines. Apart from that I feel as though I'm left on my own to figure out HOW I'm supposed to make it work.
That being said, I can't tell you what is wrong in your specific case but I can offer two suggestions:
1) I was told on 3/1/13 by a senior apple enterprise guy that you can't perform the IMAGE creation on the server if the two machines have different hardware. Lets say you have your laptop connected to an imac running the server app...you can't boot your laptop into TARGET DISK MODE (TDM) with firewire/thunderbolt to the imac and run the SYSTEM IMAGE UTILITY and expect the process to give you what you desire. I've proven to myself that you can do it but I was told flat out that this won't work because the machine that runs the SIU will build an image for that type of hardware and you can't then push the image out to a different machine. So in this case you end up with an imac image that you couldn't deploy to your laptops, even though the source image came from a laptop.
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http://macadmins.psu.edu
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