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I'm thinking of buying this product, but if it's going to cost more than 100 bucks, I would like my wife to be able to use the secondary license at the table. 1: is that legal? 2: if I'm using the AP add-on package, will she be able to easily access it? I don't want to present spoilers as a temptation.
Re: 1
The secondary licenses (you get 1 and can add more) are for the same user to be able to use it on multiple machines. The presumption is that a different person needs a different license.
Re: 2
Whatever data packages you purchase are available to all your licensed machines. Some 3rd party data packages may require a separate download and installation, but anything purchased from Lone Wolf is part of the same download - the license unlocks the purchased content.
Note:
The AP packages, and everything else for that matter, do NOT contain story information (generally) -- just monsters and NPC stat-blocks, classes, magic items, and other mechanical stuff. In some cases, there may be spoilers in the backgrounds (and, more so, the TACTICS) entries of the creatures... but generally, story/events is more what Realm Works is for.
Your best bet, though, is to ask on the Lone Wold forums. It may be a few days (especially with Paizo Con this weekend) before someone from there could answer here.
Using a secondary liscense within the same family is fine. Your wife co-own property, in order to see those stat blocks, she would have to deliberately go the game master menu and find the encounter to import. Many of those stats can be found online just as easily. I suppose what she could gain is a list of monsters and characters in an adventure, but again, she could find much of that info in the message board sections for the AP. If you have that many trust issues with a player, that is a bigger problem, I think.
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Using a secondary liscense within the same family is fine. Your wife co-own property, in order to see those stat blocks, she would have to deliberately go the game master menu and find the encounter to import. Many of those stats can be found online just as easily. I suppose what she could gain is a list of monsters and characters in an adventure, but again, she could find much of that info in the message board sections for the AP. If you have that many trust issues with a player, that is a bigger problem, I think.
good to know that it's not immediately tempting. She's trustworthy, it's just that anyone can be tempted and I want to avoid that for her.
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Never get your legal advice from the internet. The Hero Lab license is for a single user. Whether their license agreement would stand up to some argument of community property doesn’t really matter, as they’ll simply revoke your license and access to the software.
Still, they seem like reasonable folks and don’t seem to be actively looking for siblings or couples sharing the software; they’re trying to prevent people from using it without paying.