A standard single-user Creative Cloud license allows you to activate on two machines. That would preclude the five-machine example that you give below.
(BTW, be careful about the word ‘registration’. It means something very different from ‘activation’. Activation is about licenses; registration is about you giving additional contact information to Adobe and otherwise setting up your account for such communications as support calls.)
From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Greg Balint
Sent: Monday, 22 April 2013 08:16
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] When new software is available on Creative Cloud plans.
Thanks for clearing this up.. great to know.
One last question... with purchased licenses, it was easy to be able to have, say, your lead workstation using the latest and greatest version of Adobe software, and then previous versions that you bought could be installed on older workstations for stop-gaps / quick support tasks (I'm thinking older versions of Photoshop for temps or interns to clean up images, etc)
With Creative Cloud, is that out the window? like the license is only for the cloud usage itself? or once AE CS7 comes out, CS6 still has it's own registration of license on the servers for usage?
Say, in 5 years, I could have 5 different versions of AE running on 5 different workstations, because they are all their own version, and license separately under the Creative Cloud?
Not trying to abuse the system or anything, just poking at the fence to see how far the capabilities would be.
