My company is interested in converting a number of single-user licenses to floating ones. I just need to make sure when is the floating license seat checked out. In this KB article from June 2010:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/when-is-a-floating-license-seat-checked-out-and-checked-in/

it says that

"For an Intel compiler product, the license is checked out (allocated) at
the very beginning when compiler or debugger is started; and returned
when the compiler or debugger work is *done*."

However, just 3 months earlier, in March 2010, in this Forum

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=72609

On question:

"For example, if I a have integrated Intel FOTRAN and Visual Studio 2008
am I consuming a licence whilst debugging, or does the licence only get
consumed when I do a compilation?", your answer was

"Intel compiler checks out an available license only when compilation starts. "

So, which one is correct? Our developers use debugger a lot (well yeah, they should make less bugs), so the answer really matters for me.