Licensing issues [was: Re: LC 8 DP 11]

[Mark Schonewille]

Peter,

You wrote:

 > I'm afraid that that's not correct -- when your current commercial
 > license expires in August 2016, you will not be able to use any
 > commercial version of LiveCode or use them to create standalones
 > unless you renew your license.

This may be correct for 6.x and later, but it is wrong for LC 5.x and 
earlier. Anyone who has a license for LC 5.x and earlier can continue to 
use that version to compile and distribute commercial apps indefinitely.

Kind regards,

Mark Schonewille
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Op 12/14/2015 om 11:21 schreef Peter TB Brett:
> Hi Wilhelm,
>
> On 13/12/2015 18:15, sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de wrote:
>
>> Intending to test performance developments between different LC versions
>> (on the Windows partition of the Mac Mini) - like I reported them
>> several times on the Livecode lists this year - I ran into a new
>> problem: Versions that had been installed and working properly before
>> using my new Indy license now require a re-licensing process using the
>> respective neccessary password of the version I tried to open. This
>> worked for LC  6.6 - as an example - because the license password
>> apparently had not changed between LC 6 and 8, but I could not find an
>> appropriate password for LC 4.6.1, for me by far the fastest LC version
>> available when for instance testing image processing speed.
>
> That sounds a bit odd!  Please contact the LiveCode support team at
> <support at livecode.com> and I'm sure they will be able to sort it out for
> you.
>
>> I find this newly installed monitoring process controlling the validity
>> of older, but already fully installed versions an outright unnnecessary
>> nuisance. Is this part of the new licensing policies that restrict the
>> use of  LC-Indy versions to the license span you have paid for? I have
>> got a commercial version extending until August 2016, which - as I
>> understand it - enables me to use (and produce standalones) with this
>> commercial version even beyond August 2016.
>
> I'm afraid that that's not correct -- when your current commercial
> license expires in August 2016, you will not be able to use any
> commercial version of LiveCode or use them to create standalones unless
> you renew your license.
>
>> With the Indy version that I have bought as an extension package valid
>> from August 2016 to August 2018 this has apparently changed, and - and
>> this is what I consider an unnessary nuissance - is already  being
>> applied to my still existing and paid-for commercial versions until
>> August 2016. I would like to get a definite answer to these questions,
>> and I suggest to return to the old licensing policy - granting the right
>> to use and build standalones with paid-for versions forever, thereby of
>> course loosing the right to get upgrades after the license span has
>> expired.
>
> At the moment there are no plans to return to a permanent license
> system.  The subscription system for Indy and Business licenses will be
> used for the foreseeable future.
>
>                                           Peter
>