time limited sof file

Hello,

I have still not purchased the license for NIOS II IP. So right now i get the _time_limited.sof file output from the Quartus 9.0 sp1 edition.

My question is can the time_limited.sof file be converted to flash format using the sof2flash utility ?

Apparantly I am getting an error during conversion process .. something that looks as follows

# Creating .flash file for the FPGA configuration

"$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/bin/sof2flash" --offset=0x0 --input="$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/examples/v

hdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1/DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof" --output="DBC3C40_stan

dard_time_limited.flash"

Info: *******************************************************************

Info: Running Quartus II Convert_programming_file

Info: Command: quartus_cpf --no_banner --convert C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/exampl

es/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1/DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof DBC3C40_standard_ti

me_limited.rbf

File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1/DBC3C40_standard_

time_limited.sof contains one or more time-limited megafunctions that support th

e OpenCore Plus feature that will not work after the hardware evaluation time ex

pires. Refer to the Messages window for evaluation time details.

Info: SRAM Object File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1

/DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that suppo

rts OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor: 0x6AF7, Product: 0x00A2

Info: SRAM Object File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1

/DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that suppo

rts OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor: 0x6AF7, Product: 0xBCEC

Info: SRAM Object File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1

/DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that suppo

rts OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor: 0x6AF7, Product: 0xBCE1

SOF Data item missing input file

Error: Convert Programming Files was NOT successful -- refer to messages that ap

pear above this message for more information

Can somebody please help me out

Best regards,

Rohit