A multi-user license for WinZip software, licensed from WinZip Computing, is for the English-language version of WinZip software only. The license permits you to distribute the specified number of licensed copies of WinZip software entirely within your organization, solely for use by your employees. The software may be used by your employees worldwide; subject to US export restrictions (see the applicable license agreement). You may not give, transfer or sell multi-user-licensed copies of WinZip software to your customer(s), or any third party, nor include such copies in, or with, products you sell.
The multi-user license is licensed on a per-user basis. Subject to the number of copies licensed by your organization, users may access the software in any way that is convenient; for example, by accessing copies stored on local hard disks or copies stored on network servers. The license is not a concurrent-use license.
A multi-user license for WinZip software entitles your organization to duplicate the software as necessary for distribution within your organization to the specified number of users, in accordance with the applicable license agreement.
The current release of WinZip includes WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition, a subset of WinZip Self-Extractor 3.0.
Features available in WinZip Self-Extractor 3.0 that are not available in the Personal Edition include:
- Features to automate and customize software installation, such as the ability to specify an icon and text for the main self-extractor dialog box, and to delete temporary files after running a setup program.
- Include sensitive information protected with 128- and 256-bit AES encryption.
- Create smaller files with Zip files created with PPMd and Enhanced Deflate compression methods.
- Ability to run a command when the unzip operation completes.
- Self-extracting files can be created from the command line.
- All versions can be created with English or German messages.
- Ability to automatically extract files when the self-extractor file is run.
- A Wizard to simplify the process of building self-extracting files.
WinZip Sofware Maintenance Plan
Purchasing the WinZip Software Maintenance Plan for your multi-user licenses is a smart choice.
For a small annual fee you will receive the following benefits during the term of the Plan :
- Upgrades for all maintenance and major releases of the covered software product, at no additional cost.
- Priority e-mail technical support. Your support e-mails will be immediately entered at the front of the support queue. This means your questions are answered faster.
- The right to purchase additional licensed copies within the quantity range of your original covered WinZip software multi-user license.
- The opportunity to continue your maintenance protection annually, so that your WinZip software will always be up-to-date.
- *Please Note: Maintenance may only be purchased for the entire license including all add-ons to that license. Additionally Maintenance MUST be purchased at the same time as your licences