License only allows one machine - require refund as this just doesn't work for me.

There must be more to your situation than meets the eye.

From Stardock's EULA:  

An Individual User may:

1. Install, use and activate one (1) copy of the Software on up to five (5) unique personal computers simultaneously that are owned by you for your personal use.

   1. For Software acquired from Stardock via an automatic recurring payment subscription method you may install, use and activate the Software on up to five (5) unique personal computers simultaneously for as long as your subscription remains active.

I believe the license extends to multiple VM's on those 'unique personal computers' but others would need to verify that.

Business licenses are available but are more restrictive if I'm not mistaken.

As Daiwa has posted, you can install the Object Desktop apps on up to 5 of your own PCs. An installation on a VM counts as any other installation.

A business use is different and would require a separate license.

Thanks for clarification on the VM question, ID.  Jafo's bill must be huge then.   

Quoting Daiwa, reply 3

Thanks for clarification on the VM question, ID.  Jafo's bill must be huge then.   

End of Daiwa's quote

Not sure how many of my VMs have SD stuff on them....but it's amazing just what you can get away with when you know where the bodies are buried...;)

Jafo for president.     

Just a shout out to Daiwa and Island Dog. Long time no speak. Looks like more than a few of the old political gang are gone. Just found JoeUser link buried in a forgotten directory. For some unknown reason JU won't let me PM or send emails. So I'll just do it this way. How ya'll been? Any idea what ever happened to Elie (aka Moderateman)?

Doesn't show as 'exiled' or 'banned' though I can't recall seeing him any time recently...;)

Welcome back, drmiler!  We're crusty & dusty but still here.

Glad to see you're alive and kicking. The only person I won't miss is "dabe". Although I must admit that giving the contentious hub-bub about Trump that the political forum is basically dead.

Ah, yes.  Dabe.  Good times.

Political forum's been dead since Dubya's re-election.  

Since people asked, this is the relevant license statement from the license I was presented with when installing Object Desktop:

LICENSE TERMS

Following acceptance of this Agreement, you may install and use one (1) registered copy of the Software, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

Use on a Personal Computer.

1. You may:

1. Install and use one (1) copy of the Software on a single computer.

2. Install the Software on another computer only if you change your main workstation. In such a case you must uninstall the Software from the previous computer.

3. Use the Software via a network, only if you have purchased an adequate number of licenses. The number of users must not exceed the number of licenses you have purchased. The trial or free versions of the Software is licensed to be used on one (1) computer. The paid version of the Software may be used on one (1) computer.

4. Make a single backup copy of the Software for archival purposes only.

2. You may not:

1. Install the Software on a computer used for commercial, corporate, educational or other non-personal use without first purchasing a license from Stardock. Please contact: corpsales@stardock.com or visit: https://store.stardock.com/corporatepricing for licensing options.

Uh...I don't know where that came from but when I installed mine it clearly stated that you can install on up to 5 computers so long as those five computers are for your personal use. This is from mine.

END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

IMPORTANT--READ CAREFULLY: This End-User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal contract between you (either an "individual user" or a "business entity") and Stardock Software, Inc. ("Stardock"), a subsidiary of Stardock Corporation, for its software products, which includes computer software (in object code format only) and, as applicable, associated media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation (collectively hereinafter "Software").

BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS, LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND TERMINATION PROVISIONS BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE, AND EXIT NOW.

LICENSE TERMS

Following acceptance of this Agreement, you may install and use a single registered copy of the Software, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

Use on a personal computer:

An Individual User may:

Install, use and activate one (1) copy of the Software on up to five (5) unique personal computers simultaneously that are owned by you for your personal use.

For Software acquired from Stardock via an automatic recurring payment subscription method you may install, use and activate the Software on up to five (5) unique personal computers simultaneously for as long as your subscription remains active.

Software products associated with cancelled or expired subscriptions will be deactivated by Stardock and removed from Stardock product registration database until the expired subscription has been successfully re-activated.

The trial or free version of the Software is licensed to be used on one (1) computer.

Install the Software on another computer if the installation will not exceed the individual user activation limits set forth above otherwise you must uninstall and deactivate the Software from one of your previously activated personal computers.

Use the Software via a network, only if you have purchased an adequate number of licenses. The number of users must not exceed the number of licenses you have purchased.

Make a single backup copy of the Software for archival purposes only.

A Business Entity (which includes commercial, not for profit or educational types) may:

Install and use one (1) copy of the Software on one (1) unique personal computer.

The trial or free versions of the Software is licensed to be used on one (1) computer.

Your EULA is from the IconPackager folder. It isn't all of Object Desktop.  

My posted license comes from the Object Desktop installer. Which I purchased. Since I need Object Desktop to install available software it gives me, all uses of such software effectively become bound to that license.

"Use on a personal computer:

An Individual User may:

Install, use and activate one (1) copy of the Software on up to five (5) unique personal computers simultaneously that are owned by you for your personal use.

For Software acquired from Stardock via an automatic recurring payment subscription method you may install, use and activate the Software on up to five (5) unique personal computers simultaneously for as long as your subscription remains active."

As long as it's not more than 5 [five] physical machines [VMs also classify as such] then you are good to go...;)

That's actually not the case.  The phrase "Object Desktop" is a trade name which refers to the suite of applications that are bundled under the subscription.  There is no "Object Desktop installer or application" to be needed - one doesn't exist.  The individual applications in the bundle all have their own installers (.exe's).

There is a utility application called "Object Desktop Manager" which can be used to install & manage the individual applications (perhaps this is the Object Desktop installer you are actually referring to? - I readily admit its name lends itself to some possible confusion & perhaps it has its own EULA) but it is a convenience application only, via separate download, that is not required to install or use the suite of applications which are included in the subscription to "Object Desktop."  All the installers for the individual applications in the suite can be directly downloaded from the My Downloads page of your Stardock Account, the account you had to create in order to purchase the Object Desktop subscription.  As far as I know, Object Desktop Manager is a free app.  If you click the "Download" button opposite Object Desktop Manager on the My Downloads page, it links to a file named objectdesktop_setup.exe.  That may be what installs the Object Desktop Manager application itself which can then be used to install the individual apps (please forgive my ignorance, I've never done it that way & I've been a subscriber since 2001).  Assuming it indeed has its own EULA, it is not applicable to the individual apps in the suite, only to ODM itself, which again is a superfluous application (IMO) which some people prefer to use (when it works).

And the EULA snippet Jafo has posted is accurate with respect to all the bundled applications.  I hope all this lends some clarity to these muddy waters.

I need to mark this in the books- there is a EULA debate.  People read EULA's?

You can install the Object Desktop components on up to 5 computers that are owned by you.  It works- try it

jrpetit seems doggedly determined to abide by one EULA, anyway.