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is it legal to use NiModbus under linux?

Hi,

situation is: National Instruments provides the Instaler for NiModbus Library only for Windows-OS... but the Library itselv  also runs on Linux-OS. So the Question is: Is it legal to copy the ni.modbusllb out of an installation on Windows-OS and use it under Linux-OS...

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I think it will be OK if you have a license for the linux dev environment. Maybe they just don't actively support it on linux.
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t4b-1re-2 wrote:
Hi,

situation is: National Instruments provides the Instaler for NiModbus Library only for Windows-OS... but the Library itselv  also runs on Linux-OS. So the Question is: Is it legal to copy the ni.modbusllb out of an installation on Windows-OS and use it under Linux-OS...

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t4b-1re-2


Yes it is. NIMODBUS.LLB to the best of my understandings is a free download from NI for any legal user of LabVIEW. That they provide a Windows only installer is sort of neglectance of NI, of the fact that there are other platform users than Windows only. Why there needs to be an installer I'm not even sure. the library should be basically self contained and I think it is not to much asked of an average LabVIEW programmer to know how to copy an LLB into the instr.lib subdirectory. But apparently someone at NI thought that there should be an installer for such a trivial task and in the process of it forgot that there are other platforms LabVIEW is running on. (Or they think only Windows users are not smart enough to be able to copy a file themselves Smiley Very Happy )
 
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